Contributed by jose on from the big-changes dept.
"Bind 9.2.2rc1 was just imported into -current. This is a major upgrade from the Bind 4.9.* that was previously there. Now it is possible to use OpenBSD for all the new bind features such as dynamic DNS.Jakob, who appears to be leading the import effort, has spent some time auditing BIND 9.2, and has reportedly fixed many errors (many of which he appears to be checking in right now). Those of you who need to use OpenBSD as a DNS server will probably want to wait a bit before this import settles down, builds and runs perfectly, and has been audited a bit more. However, it will add many nice shiny features, including a partial DNSSEC implementation, full IPv6 support, a threaded architecture, and a lightweight resolver for caching only operations.http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=104309703929679&w=2 "
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Now to help make it rock solid for 3.3, thank you Jakob!
By coyote () on
Last night I happened to be poking around on one of the DNS servers I manage and noticed how nicely BIND 9 has been running from ports.
Three different heavily loaded servers (3.1 -stable):
$ ps aux | grep ^named
named 2320 1.1 62.6 102684 81812 ?? SNs 17Jul02 3860:21.72 named -t /var/named -u named
$ ps aux | grep ^named
named 11015 0.0 15.5 38876 40428 ?? SNs 10Jul02 547:53.14 named -t /var/named -u named
$ ps aux | grep ^named
named 7148 0.9 66.8 85556 87212 ?? SNs 23Jul02 3800:21.21 named -t /var/named -u named
By Anonymous Coward () on
Surely this is just more work when it comes time to do the _release_ version...
By Jakob () on
By Pascal Lalonde () plalonde@overnet.qc.ca on mailto:plalonde@overnet.qc.ca
Systrace is a powerful tool in my opinion, but not easy to use. I guess the maintainer more than anyone else knows what system calls named is supposed to use :)
This is not a feature request. It is just an idea thrown in the air, just in case someone likes it and wants to do something with it.
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By waldo () waldo@iastate.edu on mailto:waldo@iastate.edu
i /like/ bind4. it's clean, and seems rather more secure than bind9. oh well. here's hoping a code audit happens soon.