notable features in BIND 10 20111128

[Jeremy C. Reed]

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Interesting changes since the last snapshot release include:

- Introduction of libdhcp++, a new C++ based library that handles
  DHCPv6 packets and options, and a simple skeleton DHCPv6 server
  that uses that library and is able to assign a single, hardcoded
  lease to a client (SOLICIT-ADVERTISE-REQUEST-REPLY exchange is
  performed).

- Introduction of system tests using Behavior-Driven Development
  tool, Lettuce.  (Please let us you if you'd like to participate
  in providing system-agnostic behavior and RFC protocol tests.)

- Outbound IXFR (over TCP) is now supported and journaling of zone
  differences was added.

  NOTE: The SQLite3 schema changed and for IXFR support the database
  needs to be upgraded by running in the build directory:
  "compatcheck/sqlite3-difftbl-check.py --upgrade /path/to/zone.sqlite3".

- Statistics retrieval for specific counters or resource items,
  for example: http://localhost:8000/bind10/statistics/xml/Stats/boot_time

- Run-time configuration (for choosing components to run) is more
  flexible now. Note that the Boss start_auth and start_resolver
  configurations have been removed; see the BIND 10 Guide for
  details.

Please give it a try and let us know:

  
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind10/devel-20111128/bind10-devel-20111128.tar.gz



  Jeremy C. Reed
  ISC