ISC BIND 9.5.0-P2 is now available

[Jukka Pakkanen]

Any hints about the "very soon" Windows version..., hours, days or weeks?

Just need to know if we need to start looking other options than Win/BIND, 
if it's still unknown number of days or weeks we need to do something. If 
it's coming out in a few days, we can struggle with the current problems 
while waiting.

Thanks for ISC for their efforts and a great product in any case.

Jukka


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Evan Hunt" <Evan_Hunt at isc.org>
To: <bind-announce at isc.org>
Cc: <forum_members at isc.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 3:20 AM
Subject: ISC BIND 9.5.0-P2 is now available


    BIND 9.5.0-P2 is now available.

This is the SECOND security patch for BIND 9.5.0, addressing
performance and stability issues in BIND 9.5.0-P1.  Key features
are as follows:

- performance improvement over the P1 releases, namely
   + significantly remedying the port allocation issues
   + allowing TCP queries and zone transfers while issuing as many
      outstanding UDP queries as possible
   + additional security of port randomization at the same level as P1
- also includes fixes for several bugs in the 9.5.0 base code

NOTE: There are some remaining stability problems in 9.5.0-P2 when
running under Microsoft Windows.  A fix has been implemented, but
missed the cutoff time for this release; it will be addressed in a
Windows-specific release very soon.

BIND 9.5.0-P2 can be downloaded from

        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0-P2/bind-9.5.0-P2.tar.gz

The PGP signature of the distribution is at

        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0-P2/bind-9.5.0-P2.tar.gz.asc
        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0-P2/bind-9.5.0-P2.tar.gz.sha256.asc
        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0-P2/bind-9.5.0-P2.tar.gz.sha512.asc

These signatures were generated with Paul Vixie's public key
(vixie at isc.org, key ID D297AB8E), which is stored on the keyserver
at pgp.mit.edu.

A binary kit for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Window 2003 is at

ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0-P2/BIND9.5.0-P2.zip
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0-P2/BIND9.5.0-P2.debug.zip

The PGP signature of the binary kit for Windows 2000, Windows XP and
Window 2003 is at

ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0-P2/BIND9.5.0-P2.zip.asc
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0-P2/BIND9.5.0-P2.zip.sha256.asc
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0-P2/BIND9.5.0-P2.zip.sha512.asc
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0-P2/BIND9.5.0-P2.debug.zip.asc
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0-P2/BIND9.5.0-P2.debug.zip.sha256.asc
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0-P2/BIND9.5.0-P2.debug.zip.sha512.asc

Changes since 9.5.0-P1:

--- 9.5.0-P2 released ---

2406.   [bug]           Some operating systems have FD_SETSIZE set to a
low value by default, which can cause resource
exhaustion when many simultaneous connections are
open.  Linux in particular makes it difficult to
increase this value.  To use more sockets with
select(), set ISC_SOCKET_FDSETSIZE.  Example:
STD_CDEFINES="-DISC_SOCKET_FDSETSIZE at 96" ./configure
(This should not be necessary in most cases, and
never for an authoritative-only server.) [RT #18328]

2405.   [cleanup]       The default value for dnssec-validation was changed 
to
"yes" in 9.5.0-P1 and all subsequent releases; this
was inadvertently omitted from CHANGES at the time.

2404. [port] hpux: files unlimited support.

2403. [bug] TSIG context leak. [RT #18341]

2402. [port] Support Solaris 2.11 and over. [RT #18362]

2401. [bug] Expect to get E[MN]FILE errno internal_accept()
(from accept() or fcntl() system calls). [RT #18358]

2399. [bug] Abort timeout queries to reduce the number of open
UDP sockets. [RT #18367]

2398. [bug]           Improve file descriptor management.  New,
temporary, named.conf option reserved-sockets,
default 512. [RT #18344]

2397. [bug] gssapi_functions had too many elements. [RT #18355]

2396. [bug] Don't set SO_REUSEADDR for randomized ports.
[RT #18336]

2395. [port] Avoid warning and no effect from "files unlimited"
on Linux when running as root. [RT #18335]

2394. [bug] Default configuration options set the limit for
open files to 'unlimited' as described in the
documentation. [RT #18331]

2393.   [bug]           nested acls containing keys could trigger an
assertion in acl.c. [RT #18166]

2392. [bug] remove 'grep -q' from acl test script, some platforms
don't support it. [RT #18253]

2387. [bug] Silence compiler warnings in lib/isc/radix.c.
[RT #18147] [RT #18258]

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Evan Hunt -- evan_hunt at isc.org
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.