- "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