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diff --git a/contrib/bind9/README b/contrib/bind9/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..73715ce --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/bind9/README @@ -0,0 +1,344 @@ +BIND 9 + + BIND version 9 is a major rewrite of nearly all aspects of the + underlying BIND architecture. Some of the important features of + BIND 9 are: + + - DNS Security + DNSSEC (signed zones) + TSIG (signed DNS requests) + + - IP version 6 + Answers DNS queries on IPv6 sockets + IPv6 resource records (AAAA) + Experimental IPv6 Resolver Library + + - DNS Protocol Enhancements + IXFR, DDNS, Notify, EDNS0 + Improved standards conformance + + - Views + One server process can provide multiple "views" of + the DNS namespace, e.g. an "inside" view to certain + clients, and an "outside" view to others. + + - Multiprocessor Support + + - Improved Portability Architecture + + + BIND version 9 development has been underwritten by the following + organizations: + + Sun Microsystems, Inc. + Hewlett Packard + Compaq Computer Corporation + IBM + Process Software Corporation + Silicon Graphics, Inc. + Network Associates, Inc. + U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency + USENIX Association + Stichting NLnet - NLnet Foundation + Nominum, Inc. + + +BIND 9.3.0 + + BIND 9.3.0 has a number of new features over 9.2, + including: + + DNSSEC is now DS based (RFC 3658). + See also RFC 3845, doc/draft/draft-ietf-dnsext-dnssec-*. + + DNSSEC lookaside validation. + + check-names is now implemented. + rrset-order in more complete. + + IPv4/IPv6 transition support, dual-stack-servers. + + IXFR deltas can now be generated when loading master files, + ixfr-from-differences. + + It is now possible to specify the size of a journal, max-journal-size. + + It is now possible to define a named set of master servers to be + used in masters clause, masters. + + The advertised EDNS UDP size can now be set, edns-udp-size. + + allow-v6-synthesis has been obsoleted. + + NOTE: + * Zones containing MD and MF will now be rejected. + * dig, nslookup name. now report "Not Implemented" as + NOTIMP rather than NOTIMPL. This will have impact on scripts + that are looking for NOTIMPL. + + libbind: corresponds to that from BIND 8.4.5. + +BIND 9.2.0 + + BIND 9.2.0 has a number of new features over 9.1, + including: + + - The size of the cache can now be limited using the + "max-cache-size" option. + + - The server can now automatically convert RFC1886-style + recursive lookup requests into RFC2874-style lookups, + when enabled using the new option "allow-v6-synthesis". + This allows stub resolvers that support AAAA records + but not A6 record chains or binary labels to perform + lookups in domains that make use of these IPv6 DNS + features. + + - Performance has been improved. + + - The man pages now use the more portable "man" macros + rather than the "mandoc" macros, and are installed + by "make install". + + - The named.conf parser has been completely rewritten. + It now supports "include" directives in more + places such as inside "view" statements, and it no + longer has any reserved words. + + - The "rndc status" command is now implemented. + + - rndc can now be configured automatically. + + - A BIND 8 compatible stub resolver library is now + included in lib/bind. + + - OpenSSL has been removed from the distribution. This + means that to use DNSSEC, OpenSSL must be installed and + the --with-openssl option must be supplied to configure. + This does not apply to the use of TSIG, which does not + require OpenSSL. + + - The source distribution now builds on Windows NT/2000. + See win32utils/readme1.txt and win32utils/win32-build.txt + for details. + + This distribution also includes a new lightweight stub + resolver library and associated resolver daemon that fully + support forward and reverse lookups of both IPv4 and IPv6 + addresses. This library is considered experimental and + is not a complete replacement for the BIND 8 resolver library. + Applications that use the BIND 8 res_* functions to perform + DNS lookups or dynamic updates still need to be linked against + the BIND 8 libraries. For DNS lookups, they can also use the + new "getrrsetbyname()" API. + + BIND 9.2 is capable of acting as an authoritative server + for DNSSEC secured zones. This functionality is believed to + be stable and complete except for lacking support for + verifications involving wildcard records in secure zones. + + When acting as a caching server, BIND 9.2 can be configured + to perform DNSSEC secure resolution on behalf of its clients. + This part of the DNSSEC implementation is still considered + experimental. For detailed information about the state of the + DNSSEC implementation, see the file doc/misc/dnssec. + + There are a few known bugs: + + On some systems, IPv6 and IPv4 sockets interact in + unexpected ways. For details, see doc/misc/ipv6. + To reduce the impact of these problems, the server + no longer listens for requests on IPv6 addresses + by default. If you need to accept DNS queries over + IPv6, you must specify "listen-on-v6 { any; };" + in the named.conf options statement. + + FreeBSD prior to 4.2 (and 4.2 if running as non-root) + and OpenBSD prior to 2.8 log messages like + "fcntl(8, F_SETFL, 4): Inappropriate ioctl for device". + This is due to a bug in "/dev/random" and impacts the + server's DNSSEC support. + + OS X 10.1.4 (Darwin 5.4), OS X 10.1.5 (Darwin 5.5) and + OS X 10.2 (Darwin 6.0) reports errors like + "fcntl(3, F_SETFL, 4): Operation not supported by device". + This is due to a bug in "/dev/random" and impacts the + server's DNSSEC support. + + --with-libtool does not work on AIX. + + A bug in the Windows 2000 DNS server can cause zone transfers + from a BIND 9 server to a W2K server to fail. For details, + see the "Zone Transfers" section in doc/misc/migration. + + For a detailed list of user-visible changes from + previous releases, see the CHANGES file. + + +Building + + BIND 9 currently requires a UNIX system with an ANSI C compiler, + basic POSIX support, and a 64 bit integer type. + + We've had successful builds and tests on the following systems: + + COMPAQ Tru64 UNIX 5.1B + FreeBSD 4.10, 5.2.1 + HP-UX 11.11 + NetBSD 1.5 + Slackware Linux 8.1 + Solaris 8, 9, 9 (x86) + Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 + + Additionally, we have unverified reports of success building + previous versions of BIND 9 from users of the following systems: + + AIX 5L + SuSE Linux 7.0 + Slackware Linux 7.x, 8.0 + Red Hat Linux 7.1 + Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 and 3.0 + Mandrake 8.1 + OpenBSD 2.6, 2.8, 2.9 + UnixWare 7.1.1 + HP-UX 10.20 + BSD/OS 4.2 + Mac OS X 10.1 + + To build, just + + ./configure + make + + Do not use a parallel "make". + + Several environment variables that can be set before running + configure will affect compilation: + + CC + The C compiler to use. configure tries to figure + out the right one for supported systems. + + CFLAGS + C compiler flags. Defaults to include -g and/or -O2 + as supported by the compiler. + + STD_CINCLUDES + System header file directories. Can be used to specify + where add-on thread or IPv6 support is, for example. + Defaults to empty string. + + STD_CDEFINES + Any additional preprocessor symbols you want defined. + Defaults to empty string. + + Possible settings: + Change the default syslog facility of named/lwresd. + -DISC_FACILITY=LOG_LOCAL0 + Enable DNSSEC signature chasing support in dig. + -DDIG_SIGCHASE=1 (sets -DDIG_SIGCHASE_TD=1 and + -DDIG_SIGCHASE_BU=1) + + LDFLAGS + Linker flags. Defaults to empty string. + + To build shared libraries, specify "--with-libtool" on the + configure command line. + + For the server to support DNSSEC, you need to build it + with crypto support. You must have OpenSSL 0.9.5a + or newer installed and specify "--with-openssl" on the + configure command line. If OpenSSL is installed under + a nonstandard prefix, you can tell configure where to + look for it using "--with-openssl=/prefix". + + To build libbind (the BIND 8 resolver library), specify + "--enable-libbind" on the configure command line. + + On some platforms, BIND 9 can be built with multithreading + support, allowing it to take advantage of multiple CPUs. + You can specify whether to build a multithreaded BIND 9 + by specifying "--enable-threads" or "--disable-threads" + on the configure command line. The default is operating + system dependent. + + If your operating system has integrated support for IPv6, it + will be used automatically. If you have installed KAME IPv6 + separately, use "--with-kame[=PATH]" to specify its location. + + "make install" will install "named" and the various BIND 9 libraries. + By default, installation is into /usr/local, but this can be changed + with the "--prefix" option when running "configure". + + You may specify the option "--sysconfdir" to set the directory + where configuration files like "named.conf" go by default, + and "--localstatedir" to set the default parent directory + of "run/named.pid". For backwards compatibility with BIND 8, + --sysconfdir defaults to "/etc" and --localstatedir defaults to + "/var" if no --prefix option is given. If there is a --prefix + option, sysconfdir defaults to "$prefix/etc" and localstatedir + defaults to "$prefix/var". + + To see additional configure options, run "configure --help". + Note that the help message does not reflect the BIND 8 + compatibility defaults for sysconfdir and localstatedir. + + If you're planning on making changes to the BIND 9 source, you + should also "make depend". If you're using Emacs, you might find + "make tags" helpful. + + If you need to re-run configure please run "make distclean" first. + This will ensure that all the option changes take. + + Building with gcc is not supported, unless gcc is the vendor's usual + compiler (e.g. the various BSD systems, Linux). + + * gcc-3.2.1 and gcc-3.1.1 is known to cause problems with solaris-x86. + * gcc prior to gcc-3.2.3 ultrasparc generates incorrect code at -02. + + A limited test suite can be run with "make test". Many of + the tests require you to configure a set of virtual IP addresses + on your system, and some require Perl; see bin/tests/system/README + for details. + + +Documentation + + The BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual is included with the + source distribution in DocBook XML and HTML format, in the + doc/arm directory. + + Some of the programs in the BIND 9 distribution have man pages + in their directories. In particular, the command line + options of "named" are documented in /bin/named/named.8. + There is now also a set of man pages for the lwres library. + + If you are upgrading from BIND 8, please read the migration + notes in doc/misc/migration. If you are upgrading from + BIND 4, read doc/misc/migration-4to9. + + Frequently asked questions and their answers can be found in + FAQ. + + +Bug Reports and Mailing Lists + + Bugs reports should be sent to + + bind9-bugs@isc.org + + To join the BIND Users mailing list, send mail to + + bind-users-request@isc.org + + archives of which can be found via + + http://www.isc.org/ops/lists/ + + If you're planning on making changes to the BIND 9 source + code, you might want to join the BIND Workers mailing list. + Send mail to + + bind-workers-request@isc.org + + |
