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 organisations: 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 9.2.3 BIND 9.2.3 is a maintenance release, containing fixes for a number of bugs in 9.2.2. A new zone type delegation-only is now supported. A new view option root-delegation-only is now supported. libbind: corresponds to that from BIND 8.4.0. BIND 9.2.2 BIND 9.2.2 is a maintenance release, containing fixes for a number of bugs in 9.2.1 but no new features. RFC 2535 style DNSSEC is disabled as it is incompatible with the forthcoming DS style DNSSEC. libbind: from BIND 8.3.3. [CERT CA-2002-19] Minimum OpenSSL version now 0.9.6e. [CERT CA-2002-23] BIND 9.2.1 BIND 9.2.1 is a maintenance release, containing fixes for a number of bugs in 9.2.0 but no new features. NOTE: dig, nslookup name. now report "Not Implemented" as NOTIMP rather than NOTIMPL. This will have impact on scripts that are looking for NOTIMPL. BIND 9.2.0 BIND 9.2.0 introduces 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 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) 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: AIX 4.3 COMPAQ Tru64 UNIX 4.0D COMPAQ Tru64 UNIX 5 (with IPv6 EAK) FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE, 3.5, 4.0, 4.1 HP-UX 11.x, x < 11 IRIX64 6.5 NetBSD 1.5 Red Hat Linux 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.0 Solaris 2.6, 7, 8 Windows NT/W2K 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 OpenBSD 2.6, 2.8, 2.9 UnixWare 7.1.1 HP-UX 10.20 BSD/OS 4.2 OpenUNIX 8 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: -DISC_RFC2535 Enable support RFC 2535 style DNSSEC. This is incompatable with the upcoming DS support and SHOULD NOT be set unless you are currently making use of it. 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 if the optimiser is enabled. Use -O0 to disable the optimiser. * gcc 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 Configuration questions should be sent to the BIND 9 Users mailing list. Compilation questions should be sent to the BIND 9 Users mailing list. To join the BIND 9 Users mailing list, send mail to bind9-users-request@isc.org archives of which can be found via http://www.isc.org/ml-archives/ 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