]> git.ipfire.org Git - thirdparty/bind9.git/commitdiff
[master] clarified "no-case-compress"
authorEvan Hunt <each@isc.org>
Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:55:48 +0000 (09:55 -0800)
committerEvan Hunt <each@isc.org>
Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:55:48 +0000 (09:55 -0800)
README

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@@ -147,9 +147,16 @@ BIND 9.10.0
         - "rndc zonestatus" reports information about a specified zone.
         - "named" now listens on IPv6 as well as IPv4 interfaces
           by default.
-        - "named" now preserves the capitalization of names when
-          responding to queries.  The former behavior can be restored
-          for specific clients via the new "no-case-compress" ACL.
+        - "named" now preserves the capitalization of names
+          when responding to queries: for instance, a query for
+          "example.com" may be answered with "example.COM" if the
+          name was configured that way in the zone file.  Some
+          clients have a bug causing them to depend on the older
+          behavior, in which the case of the answer always matched
+          the case of the query, rather than the case of the name
+          configured in the DNS.  Such clients can now be specified
+          in the new "no-case-compress" ACL; this will restore the
+          older behavior of "named" for those clients only.
         - new "dnssec-importkey" command allows the use of offline
           DNSSEC keys with automatic DNSKEY management.
         - New "named-rrchecker" tool to verify the syntactic