mechanism.
</p>
<p>
- This feature should be considered experimental. It currently
+ This feature should be considered experimental. It currently
supports only basic features; more advanced features such as
ACLs and TSIG keys are not yet supported. Example catalog
zone configurations can be found in the Chapter 9 of the
<p>
Support for master entries with TSIG keys has been added to catalog
zones, as well as support for allow-query and allow-transfer.
- </p>
+ </p>
</li>
<li class="listitem"><p>
- Added rndc python module.
+ Added an <span class="command"><strong>isc.rndc</strong></span> Python module, which allows
+ <span class="command"><strong>rndc</strong></span> commands to be sent from Python programs.
</p></li>
<li class="listitem">
<p>
<span class="command"><strong>dig +mapped</strong></span> can now be used to determine
if mapped IPv4 addresses can be used.
</p></li>
+<li class="listitem"><p>
+ <span class="command"><strong>nslookup</strong></span> will now look up IPv6 as well
+ as IPv4 addresses by default. [RT #40420]
+ </p></li>
<li class="listitem"><p>
<code class="option">serial-update-method</code> can now be set to
<code class="literal">date</code>. On update, the serial number will
configuration for a specified zone.
</p></li>
<li class="listitem">
+<p>
+ When BIND is built with the <span class="command"><strong>lmdb</strong></span> library
+ (Lightning Memory-Mapped Database), <span class="command"><strong>named</strong></span>
+ will store the configuration information for zones
+ that are added via <span class="command"><strong>rndc addzone</strong></span>
+ in a database, rather than in a flat "NZF" file. This
+ dramatically improves performance for
+ <span class="command"><strong>rndc delzone</strong></span> and
+ <span class="command"><strong>rndc modzone</strong></span>: deleting or changing
+ the contents of a database is much faster than rewriting
+ a text file.
+ </p>
+<p>
+ On startup, if <span class="command"><strong>named</strong></span> finds an existing
+ NZF file, it will automatically convert it to the new NZD
+ database format.
+ </p>
+<p>
+ To view the contents of an NZD, or to convert an
+ NZD back to an NZF file (for example, to revert back
+ to an earlier version of BIND which did not support the
+ NZD format), use the new command <span class="command"><strong>named-nzd2nzf</strong></span>
+ [RT #39837]
+ </p>
+</li>
+<li class="listitem">
<p>
Added server-side support for pipelined TCP queries. Clients
may continue sending queries via TCP while previous queries are
mechanism.
</p>
<p>
- This feature should be considered experimental. It currently
+ This feature should be considered experimental. It currently
supports only basic features; more advanced features such as
ACLs and TSIG keys are not yet supported. Example catalog
zone configurations can be found in the Chapter 9 of the
<p>
Support for master entries with TSIG keys has been added to catalog
zones, as well as support for allow-query and allow-transfer.
- </p>
+ </p>
</li>
<li class="listitem"><p>
- Added rndc python module.
+ Added an <span class="command"><strong>isc.rndc</strong></span> Python module, which allows
+ <span class="command"><strong>rndc</strong></span> commands to be sent from Python programs.
</p></li>
<li class="listitem">
<p>
<span class="command"><strong>dig +mapped</strong></span> can now be used to determine
if mapped IPv4 addresses can be used.
</p></li>
+<li class="listitem"><p>
+ <span class="command"><strong>nslookup</strong></span> will now look up IPv6 as well
+ as IPv4 addresses by default. [RT #40420]
+ </p></li>
<li class="listitem"><p>
<code class="option">serial-update-method</code> can now be set to
<code class="literal">date</code>. On update, the serial number will
configuration for a specified zone.
</p></li>
<li class="listitem">
+<p>
+ When BIND is built with the <span class="command"><strong>lmdb</strong></span> library
+ (Lightning Memory-Mapped Database), <span class="command"><strong>named</strong></span>
+ will store the configuration information for zones
+ that are added via <span class="command"><strong>rndc addzone</strong></span>
+ in a database, rather than in a flat "NZF" file. This
+ dramatically improves performance for
+ <span class="command"><strong>rndc delzone</strong></span> and
+ <span class="command"><strong>rndc modzone</strong></span>: deleting or changing
+ the contents of a database is much faster than rewriting
+ a text file.
+ </p>
+<p>
+ On startup, if <span class="command"><strong>named</strong></span> finds an existing
+ NZF file, it will automatically convert it to the new NZD
+ database format.
+ </p>
+<p>
+ To view the contents of an NZD, or to convert an
+ NZD back to an NZF file (for example, to revert back
+ to an earlier version of BIND which did not support the
+ NZD format), use the new command <span class="command"><strong>named-nzd2nzf</strong></span>
+ [RT #39837]
+ </p>
+</li>
+<li class="listitem">
<p>
Added server-side support for pipelined TCP queries. Clients
may continue sending queries via TCP while previous queries are