BIND 9.6-ESV-R7-P3 is now available

Michael McNally mcnally at isc.org
Wed Sep 12 16:36:39 UTC 2012


Introduction

   BIND 9.6-ESV-R7-P3 is the latest production release of BIND
   9.6-ESV.

   BIND 9.6-ESV is an Extended Support Version of BIND 9.

   This document summarizes changes from BIND 9.6-ESV-R6 to BIND
   9.6-ESV-R7-P3.  Please see the CHANGES file in the source code
   release for a complete list of all changes.

Download

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   our web site at http://www.isc.org/downloads/all. There you will
   find additional information about each release, source code, and
   pre-compiled versions for Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Support

   Product support information is available on http://www.isc.org/support
   for paid support options.  Free support is provided by our user
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   lists is available at https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo.

Security Fixes

   Prevents a named assert (crash) when queried for a record whose
   RDATA exceeds 65535 bytes.  [RT #30416]

   Prevents a named assert (crash) when validating caused by using
   "Bad cache" data before it has been initialized.  [RT #30025]

   A condition has been corrected where improper handling of
   zero-length RDATA could cause undesirable behavior, including
   termination of the named process.  [RT #29644]

New Features

   None

Feature Changes

   BIND now recognizes the TLSA resource record type, created to
   support IETF DANE (DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities)
   [RT #28989]

Bug Fixes

   Fixes the defect introduced by change #3314 that was causing
   failures when saving stub zones to disk (resulting in excessive
   CPU usage in some cases).  [RT #29952]

   The tests on random jitter values that are used when handling
   zone refreshes have been relaxed.  Prior to this change named
   could terminate unexpectedly when processing stub zones.  [RT#
   19821]

   The locking strategy around the handling of iterative queries
   has been tuned to reduce unnecessary contention in a multi-threaded
   environment.  (Note that this may not provide a measurable
   improvement over previous versions of BIND, but it corrects the
   performance impact of change 3309 / RT #27995) [RT #29239]

   Addresses a race condition that can cause named to to crash when
   the masters list for a zone is updated via rndc reload/reconfig
   [RT #26732]

   Fixes a race condition in zone.c that can cause named to crash
   during the processing of rndc delzone [RT #29028]

   Prevents a named segfault from resolver.c due to procedure
   fctx_finddone() not being thread-safe.  [RT #27995]

   Uses hmctx, not mctx when freeing rbtdb->heaps to avoid triggering
   an assertion when flushing cache data. [RT #28571]

   A new flag -R  has been added to queryperf for running tests
   using non-recursive queries.  It also now builds correctly on
   MacOS version 10.7 (darwin)  [RT #28565]

   Named no longer crashes if gssapi is enabled in named.conf but
   was not compiled into the binary [RT #28338]

   SDB now handles unexpected errors from back-end database drivers
   gracefully instead of exiting on an assert. [RT #28534]

Thank You

   Thank you to everyone who assisted us in making this release
   possible. If you would like to contribute to ISC to assist us
   in continuing to make quality open source software, please visit
   our donations page at http://www.isc.org/supportisc.

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