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would cause seg faults. Do not update the RTT if a query is being canceled due to internal failures. Some servers generate badly formatted responses when they get an EDNS query. We were marking these servers as bad, but a more practical solution is to retry without EDNS. If a message fails to parse due to DNS_R_FORMERR or DNS_R_UNEXPECTEDEND, and we were using EDNS, we now retry the query without EDNS. Add a "default" case to the message parsing error switch. This prevents bad things from happening if message parsing fails in a nontypical way.
BIND 9.0.0 alpha 1 Status Most of the core technology planned for BIND 9 is in this release. Some of the highlights are: IPv6 Support for bitstring labels, DNAME, and A6 records. IPv6-aware resolver (follows A6 chains, can use IPv6 to talk to other nameservers). The nameserver listens on an IPv6 socket. DNSSEC All new RR types supported. The server generates DNSSEC responses for secure zones. EDNS0 (server only), IXFR, AXFR, dynamic update With the exception of the DNSSEC validator, all the major new functionality is done. We expect to finish the DNSSEC validator by Dec. 1. This release is alpha quality. There are still a number of unfinished areas, for example: most config file options, sanity checking, performance tuning, high-volume client support, garbage collection, however, none of these areas are especially difficult. We've used BIND 9 as the nameserver while web surfing and doing other ordinary tasks, and it has worked. We've successfully answered queries sent over IPv6 sockets, and have used IPv6 to query other nameservers (also running BIND 9 of course!). Building We've had successful builds and tests on the following systems AIX 4.3 BSDI 3.1, 4.0.1 COMPAQ Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.0 FreeBSD 3.3 HP-UX 11 IRIX64 6.5 NetBSD 1.4.1 Red Hat Linux 6.0, 6.1 Solaris 2.6, 7 To build, just ./configure make Do not run 'make install'. Shared libraries will be built if "--with-libtool" is added to the "configure" command. Building with gcc is not supported, unless gcc is the vendor's usual compiler (e.g. the various BSD systems, Linux). bin/named notes The server now uses the BIND 8 config file format. All options are parsed, but most do not have any effect as yet. The server now runs on port 53 by default. Use "-p" if you want to run on a different port. The server does not yet "daemonize". API Note All APIs are subject to change in future code drops. We expect the existing library interfaces in the code drop to be quite stable, however, and unless we've specifically indicated that an interface is temporary, we don't expect significant changes in future releases.