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The official way to get BIND is: ftp ftp.vix.com
cd pub/bind/release
binary
get bind.tar.gz
The official mailing lists are: bind-users@vix.com - users/admins
(use *-request@* for admin mail) bind-workers@vix.com - developers
The official Usenet newsgroups are: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
BIND is currently sponsored by: The Internet Software Consortium
(send to <info@isc.org> for details.)
----- 4.9.3 BETA33 - December, 1995 - paul@vix.com
Take a look around in doc/misc/ and contrib/. Reread INSTALL. Have fun.
----- 4.9.3 BETA11, BETA12 release - December, 1994 - paul@vix.com
If you maintain a BSD or are otherwise running a 4.4BSD-based system and want
to integrate BIND into it, check out BSD/README.
Read the top of CHANGES for interesting stuff.
Don't forget to purge all your secondary zone files before upgrading to this
BIND if your existing one came from a vendor.
The NOTIFY feature is turned off by default, but it's really cool and you
should consider turning it on if you are willing to risk having it not work
after the RFC process is complete (if the protocol has to change at all.)
It already does not conform to the draft protocol so you should consider it
"experimental" even if it happens to work fine.
----- 4.9.3 BETA10 release - August, 1994 - paul@vix.com
I recommend reading this ENTIRE FILE before you attempt to build or use BIND.
However, you can get started quickly by scanning down this file for "QUICK" in
the right margin and just reading those sections. You can also look at the
INSTALL file. You should look at doc/info/* if you have trouble building.
There are at least two known bugs in this BIND:
1. if you have two authoritative zones (primary or secondary) where
one is a subzone of the other, e.g.,
primary pa.dec.com z/pa.dec.com
primary dec.com z/dec.com
and you remove or comment out the subzone (pa.dec.com in our example)
and SIGHUP named, the delegation and other RR's at "pa.dec.com" will
be missing from your cache. to avoid this, you should "named.restart"
rather than SIGHUP ("named.reload") when making changes of this kind.
2. the /HS qualifier doesn't work on "cache" directives. you will have
to put your hesiod root information into your main "root.cache" file.
Also, you may find that your utilities will not link with this -lresolv
unless you also install lib44bsd.a and link with -lresolv -l44bsd. This
is because older systems do not include inet_aton() and other functions.
----- 4.9.3 BETA6 release - June, 1994 - paul@vix.com
Several private beta test releases have come and gone, and we've fixed a
number of things. See CHANGES for details.
There is a new Sun Shared Library update mechanism in place, and it works
quite well. See shres/*.
Versions of NSLOOKUP up through BIND 4.8.3's used IQUERY to ask the local
server for information about the server's own name. I assume that this was
done in a "what the heck, nothing uses these, how can we contrive a need?"
sort of spirit. I removed this code as of BIND 4.9's NSLOOKUP and had it
use the standard gethostbyaddr() mechanisms (which depend on normal queries
of PTR data). Disabling INVQ and putting "options fake-iquery" in the boot
file will cause IQUERY to be answered bogusly but in a way that old nslookup
programs won't trip on. INVQ is disabled by default in conf/options.h.
----- 4.9.3 BETA2 release - June, 1994 - paul@vix.com
News flash! BIND development is now funded by the Internet Software Consortium.
Look at CHANGES to see what's new. Check out doc/misc to see some interesting
papers from Purdue (and Bell Labs, if we're lucky) on DNS security that
motivated many of the security-related changes present in this release.
Check out shres/Makefile for SunOS4 shared library support.
INVQ now defaults to "undef". See OPTIONS and conf/options.h.
ALLOW_UPDATES is no longer available, and will be removed next release.
You should look hard at the SENSIBLE_DOTS option and convert your serial
numbers either to "sensible" ones or ones without dots (YYYYMMDD## preferred).
SENSIBLE_DOTS will be the default in the next release.
NCACHE and VALIDATE are _working_ now.
Read the BOG! It's been updated since the previous release.
If you are a vendor and are including some or all of this code in your product,
please drop me a line to let me know. I field a lot of questions about BIND
and it is helpful for me to know which vendor releases contain which versions
of BIND. It's also helpful for me to have contacts within the engineering
groups of the various vendors, since when I find a heinous bug I can let you
know.
----- 4.9.2 FINAL (940221) release - February, 1994 - paul@vix.com
If you look at the last entry in TODO, you'll see that there are a lot
of things in the queue waiting to go in. However, I'm holding the line
so that 4.9.2-FINAL can be the same as what goes out with 4.4BSD-Lite.
I expect to open 4.9.3-ALPHA fairly soon, with patches comprising new
work; 4.9.2-FINAL will have patches released for it only to correct bugs.
The official way to get BIND 4.9.2 is: ftp gatekeeper.dec.com OUT OF DATE!!!
cd pub/misc/vixie OUT OF DATE!!!
binary OUT OF DATE!!!
get bind-940221.tar.gz OUT OF DATE!!!
or: get bind-940221.tar.Z OUT OF DATE!!!
The official mailing lists are: bind-users@vix.com - users/admins
(use *-request for admin mail) bind-workers@vix.com - developers
The official Usenet newsgroups are: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
My official e-mail address is: paul@vix.com
----- 4.9.2 BETA5 (931205) release - December, 1993 - paul@vix.com
no comments; see CHANGES file.
----- 4.9.2 BETA4 (931104) release - November, 1993 - paul@vix.com
All reported portability problems have been fixed. All core dumps have
had changes made for them and we are ready to have them tested again. As
usual, I am running this in production on my own zones and I am rather
confident in it. Note, again, that this is a BETA release and you should
not put it up for anon-ftp or otherwise republish it in any way.
----- 4.9.2 ALPHA2 (930908) release - September, 1993 - paul@vix.com
4.9.2 has fixes for most of the bugs that smb@bellcore's white paper talked
about, and CERT is going to be knocking on vendor's doors to get it shipped
with as many operating systems as possible.
----- 4.9.2 ALPHA1 (930506) release - July, 1993 - Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
I don't work for DEC any more, so note the new e-mail address. The old
<bind-4.9@pa.dec.com> list has been moved to <bind-workers@vix.com>; if
you intend to help hack BIND and you want to be advised of alpha-testing
releases, send mail to <bind-workers-request@vix.com> and ask to be added
to the list.
Note that 4.9.1 was an interrim, nonpublished release intended to catch
the porting changes needed for 4.4BSD. It never really existed separately.
----- 4.9 release - April, 1993 - Paul Vixie <vixie@pa.dec.com>
For information on what's new in 4.9, see OPTIONS and CHANGES. Also note
that the man page for named(8) in man/named.8, and the entire Bind Operations
Guide in doc/BOG/*, has been updated for 4.9. Both make excellent reading.
Those of you who are thinking of adding features should first read TODO to
see if someone else has already indicated an intention to work on the same
thing. If your feature is significant you should ask <bind-workers@vix.com>
before you hack, if for no other reason than to tell other maintainers to
expect a patch soon.
Note that the resolver has a number of routines that may already be present
on your system. Efforts have been made to avoid generating code for them on
systems where they aren't needed; don't worry about them if they're
generated unneccessarily since the linker will sort things out.
This software is protected under the U C Regents' copyright. Changes made
by or released through Digital Equipment Corporation are subject to a
subsidiary copyright. The entire copyright is as follows:
++Copyright++ 1989
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Copyright (c) 1989
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are perm