Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 22:06:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Josh Gilliam <soil@quick.net> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: BIND 8.1-REL announcement (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970506220348.14119B-100000@jg.dyn.ml.org>
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Message-ID: <g34tcgp3z0.fsf@wisdom.home.vix.com> Date: 06 May 1997 16:37:07 -0700 From: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com> Organization: Vixie Enterprises To: comp-protocols-dns-bind@moderators.uu.net Subject: BIND 8.1-REL announcement -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This is the long-awaited successor to BIND Version 4 (i.e., 4.9.5 et al). Many private releases have been run by the BIND developer community, and several public releases have been tested by the Internet community at large. We run BIND 8.1 on the root name server we operate (F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET), and on all of our internal name servers (GW.HOME.VIX.COM, et al). BIND 8.1 is known to be running successfully at UUNET PIPEX (24,000 zones) and a number of other large sites around the 'net. The changes from BIND 8.1-T5B to 8.1-REL are small, but no patch will be released since we would really like the "final cut" to be the only thing on any FTP caches. BIND 8 features are too numerous to mention here, but they include: -> DNS Dynamic Updates (RFC 2136). -> DNS Change Notification (RFC 1996). -> Completely new configuration syntax (and HTML docs for same). -> Flexible, categorized logging system (blackhole lame delegations!). -> IP-address-based access control for queries, zone transfers, and updates that may be specified on a zone-by-zone basis. -> More efficient zone transfers (no fork() on outbound!). -> Improved performance for servers with thousands of zones. -> get*by*() functions can now use Sun NIS if desired/available. -> Many bug fixes, including patches for all known security holes. See the CHANGES file in the source kit for a detailed listing of all changes. Bob and I would like to thank Viraj Bais of Intel for his reference implementation of Dynamic DNS, which 8.1's dynamic DNS is built upon. We'd also like to thank everyone who has sent us bug reports, patches, or operating system ports. The release files are: ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/8.1/bind-contrib.tar.gz ~same as 4.9.5 ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/8.1/bind-contrib.tar.gz.asc PGP sig ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/8.1/bind-doc.tar.gz new HTML,MAN ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/8.1/bind-doc.tar.gz.asc PGP sig ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/8.1/bind-src.tar.gz 8.1 source ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/8.1/bind-src.tar.gz.asc PGP sig Those PGP signatures are signed with the new <pgpkey@isc.org> key, which has been submitted to the MIT key ring a lot of well known signatures on it. It can also be found at <URL:http://www.isc.org/isc/>; along with a lot of other ISC related material that we hope you'll glance through. (If you see it as a crass request for funding, well, we didn't mean it to be "crass".) There is a newish mailing list: <bind-bugs@isc.org>. Submit bug reports to it so that both Bob Halley and Paul Vixie will see them, and they will be archived. This is not a mailing list in the traditional sense -- there are no external subscribers. Corresponding security fixes for BIND 4.9.5 will be released shortly, even though the release of BIND 8.1 officially puts BIND 4.9.5 in "end of life." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBM2/ACHcdkq6JcsfBAQEWFwP/WAldrVaypxOtjvkGgTyd4Kw6wbLovdBK kSIGgpEx9hrpBKpVSaY+PcBEAIQqrjVRGSDxmgSm/9UhDb0qd9Os8tZmM0CwZY6H IPWxyXoBFd0lly9ut+IPae0vkPTzmp8jwN5LoKb9YHvKHStoMq8dGkqHSo4DRT8U gyXFElUBJrw= =t/qo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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