The current serve-stale implementation in BIND 9 stores all received
records in the cache for a max-stale-ttl interval (default 12 hours).
This allows DNS operators to turn the serve-stale answers in an event of
large authoritative DNS outage. The caching of the stale answers needs
to be enabled before the outage happens or the feature would be
otherwise useless.
The negative consequence of the default setting is the inevitable
cache-bloat that happens for every and each DNS operator running named.
In this MR, a new configuration option `stale-cache-enable` is
introduced that allows the operators to selectively enable or disable
the serve-stale feature of BIND 9 based on their decision.
The newly introduced option has been disabled by default,
e.g. serve-stale is disabled in the default configuration and has to be
enabled if required.
(cherry picked from commit ce53db34d6)
Commit b580eb2fb3 inadvertently caused the
man pages for symlinked BIND tools (named-compilezone, tsig-keygen) to
no longer be installed by "make install". Fix by restoring the commands
which ensure that.
Commit b580eb2fb3 inadvertently caused
dnstap-related man pages to be installed unconditionally. Ensure they
are only installed for dnstap-enabled builds.
Add the code and documentation required to provide DNSSEC signing
status through rndc. This does not yet show any useful information,
just provide the command that will output some dummy string.
(cherry picked from commit e1ba1bea7c)
The ARM and the manpages have been converted into Sphinx documentation
format.
Sphinx uses reStructuredText as its markup language, and many of its
strengths come from the power and straightforwardness of
reStructuredText and its parsing and translating suite, the Docutils.
(cherry picked from commit 9fb6d11abb)
threads in BSD/OS and mistakenly attributing that to all platforms.
Added a couple of paras on how lookups are performed.
Documented the difference n how trunctaed responses are handled.
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