commit 6168f9ffe27596cfeb7709d1772211fcf06aacb5
Author: Abdel G. Martinez L <abdel.g.martinez.l(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon Apr 20 11:27:01 2015 -0500
Added information on Networking
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diff --git a/en-US/Networking.xml b/en-US/Networking.xml
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<section id="networking">
<title>Networking</title>
<para />
+ <section id="networking-BIND">
+ <title>BIND</title>
+ <para>BIND has been updated to the latest major release 9.10. This release comes
with new features, some of which are listed below.</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>New zone file format, "map", stores zone data
in a format that can be mapped directly into memory, allowing significantly faster zone
loading.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>New tool "delv" (domain entity lookup and
validation) with dig-like semantics for looking up DNS data and performing internal DNSSEC
validation has been added.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>New "prefetch" option improving the recursive
resolver performance has been added.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Improved EDNS processing allowing better resolver
performance.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Substantial improvements have been made in
response-policy zone (RPZ) performance.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>ACLs can now be specified based on geographic location
using the MaxMind GeoIP databases.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The statistics channel can now provide data in JSON
format as well as XML.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The new "in-view" zone option allows zone data
to be shared between views, so that multiple views can serve the same zones
authoritatively without storing multiple copies in memory.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Native PKCS#11 API has been added.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>New tool "named-rrchecker" can be used to check
the syntax of individual resource records.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>New tool "dnssec-importkey" allows
"offline" DNSSEC keys.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Network interfaces are re-scanned automatically whenever
they change.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>New "max-zone-ttl" option enforces maximum TTLs
for zones.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Multiple DLZ databases can now be configured, and are
searched in order to find one that can answer an incoming query.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>"named-checkzone" and
"named-compilezone" can now read journal files.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>This release also includes feature changes, some of which are
listed below.</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The version 3 XML schema for the statistics channel,
including new statistics and a flattened XML tree for faster parsing, is no longer
optional.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The option "named" now listens on IPv6 as well
as IPv4 interfaces by default.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The internal and export versions of the BIND libraries
have been unified so that external library clients can use the same libraries as BIND
itself.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The default setting for the -U option has been adjusted
to improve performance.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Adaptive mutex locks are now used on systems which
support them.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The option "rndc flushtree" now flushes
matching records from the address database and bad cache as well as the DNS
cache.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The isc_bitstring API is no longer used and has been
removed from the libisc library.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The timestamps included in RRSIG records can now be read
as integers indicating the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch, in addition to being
read as formatted dates in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>For more information about the release, go read the BIND 9.10 Release Notes
at <ulink
url="http://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.10.0-P2/RELEASE-NOTES-BIND-9.10....
+ </section>
</section>
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