-This is the source for the development version of BIND 10.
+This is the source for the BIND 10 suite.
BIND is the popular implementation of a DNS server, developer
interfaces, and DNS tools. BIND 10 is a rewrite of BIND 9 and ISC
DHCP. BIND 10 is written in C++ and Python and provides a modular
environment for serving, maintaining, and developing DNS and DHCP.
-BIND10-devel is new development leading up to the production
-BIND 10 release. It contains prototype code and experimental
-interfaces. Nevertheless it is ready to use now for testing the
-new BIND 10 infrastructure ideas.
-
This release includes the bind10 master process, b10-msgq message
bus, b10-auth authoritative DNS server (with SQLite3 and in-memory
backends), b10-resolver recursive or forwarding DNS server, b10-cmdctl
http://bind10.isc.org/wiki/SystemSpecificNotes
Please see the wiki and the doc/ directory for various documentation.
+
+The BIND 10 suite is started by running "bind10". Note that the
+default configuration does not run any DNS or DHCP servers.
</para>
<para>
- This guide covers the experimental prototype of
- BIND 10 version &__VERSION__;.
+ This guide covers BIND 10 version &__VERSION__;.
</para>
<section>
However, these processes are started, stopped, and maintained
by a single command, <command>bind10</command>.
This command starts a master process which will start other
- processes as needed.
- The processes started by the <command>bind10</command>
+ required processes and other processes when configured.
+ The processes that may be started by the <command>bind10</command>
command have names starting with "b10-", including:
</para>
</para>
<para>
- These are ran by <command>bind10</command>
- and do not need to be manually started independently.
+ These do not need to be manually started independently.
</para>
</section>
<command>b10-cmdctl</command> for administration tools to
communicate with the system, and
<command>b10-stats</command> for statistics collection.
+ The DNS and DHCP servers are not started by default.
The configuration of components to start is covered in
<xref linkend="bind10.components"/>.
</para>
<!-- TODO -->
<note>
<para>
- The development prototype release only provides
+ The current release only provides
<command>bindctl</command> as a user interface to
<command>b10-cmdctl</command>.
Upcoming releases will provide another interactive command-line
<title>Control and configure user interface</title>
<note><para>
- For this development prototype release, <command>bindctl</command>
+ For the current release, <command>bindctl</command>
is the only user interface. It is expected that upcoming
releases will provide another interactive command-line
interface and a web-based interface for controlling and
By default, this is empty.
<note><simpara>
- In this development version, currently this is only used for the
- memory data source.
+ Currently this is only used for the memory data source.
Only the IN class is supported at this time.
By default, the memory data source is disabled.
Also, currently the zone file must be canonical such as
(it defaults to <quote>memory</quote>).
<note><simpara>
- In this development version, currently this only supports the
+ Currently this only supports the
IN class and the memory data source.
</simpara></note>
</simpara>
</para>
<note><para>
- In the development prototype release, <command>b10-auth</command>
+ In the current release, <command>b10-auth</command>
can serve data from a SQLite3 data source backend and from master
files.
Upcoming versions will be able to use multiple different
<note>
<para>
- In the development prototype release, only the SQLite3 back
+ In the current release, only the SQLite3 back
end is used by <command>b10-loadzone</command>.
By default, it stores the zone data in
<filename>/usr/local/var/bind10-devel/zone.sqlite3</filename>
underlying data source storing the zone data be writable.
In the current implementation this means the zone must be stored
in an SQLite3-based data source.
- Also, in this development version, the <command>b10-ddns</command>
+<!-- TODO -->
+ Also, in this current version, the <command>b10-ddns</command>
component configures itself with the data source referring to the
<varname>database_file</varname> configuration parameter of
<command>b10-auth</command>.