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This document summarizes changes since the last production release of BIND on the corresponding major release branch.
The latest versions of BIND 9 software can always be found at http://www.isc.org/downloads/. There you will find additional information about each release, source code, and pre-compiled versions for Microsoft Windows operating systems.
An incorrect boundary check in the OPENPGPKEY rdatatype could trigger an assertion failure. This flaw is disclosed in CVE-2015-5986. [RT #40286]
A buffer accounting error could trigger an assertion failure when parsing certain malformed DNSSEC keys.
This flaw was discovered by Hanno B쎶ck of the Fuzzing Project, and is disclosed in CVE-2015-5722. [RT #40212]
A specially crafted query could trigger an assertion failure in message.c.
This flaw was discovered by Jonathan Foote, and is disclosed in CVE-2015-5477. [RT #39795]
On servers configured to perform DNSSEC validation, an assertion failure could be triggered on answers from a specially configured server.
This flaw was discovered by Breno Silveira Soares, and is disclosed in CVE-2015-4620. [RT #39795]
New quotas have been added to limit the queries that are sent by recursive resolvers to authoritative servers experiencing denial-of-service attacks. When configured, these options can both reduce the harm done to authoritative servers and also avoid the resource exhaustion that can be experienced by recursives when they are being used as a vehicle for such an attack.
NOTE: These options are not available by default; use configure --enable-fetchlimit to include them in the build.
fetches-per-server limits the number of
simultaneous queries that can be sent to any single
authoritative server. The configured value is a starting
point; it is automatically adjusted downward if the server is
partially or completely non-responsive. The algorithm used to
adjust the quota can be configured via the
fetch-quota-params option.
fetches-per-zone limits the number of
simultaneous queries that can be sent for names within a
single domain. (Note: Unlike "fetches-per-server", this
value is not self-tuning.)
Statistics counters have also been added to track the number of queries affected by these quotas.
An --enable-querytrace configure switch is now available to enable very verbose query tracelogging. This option can only be set at compile time. This option has a negative performance impact and should be used only for debugging.
EDNS COOKIE options content is now displayed as "COOKIE: <hexvalue>".
Large inline-signing changes should be less disruptive.
Signature generation is now done incrementally; the number
of signatures to be generated in each quantum is controlled
by "sig-signing-signatures number;".
[RT #37927]
Retrieving the local port range from net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range on Linux is now supported.
Active Directory names of the form gc._msdcs.<forest> are
now accepted as valid hostnames when using the
check-names option. <forest> is still
restricted to letters, digits and hyphens.
Names containing rich text are now accepted as valid hostnames in PTR records in DNS-SD reverse lookup zones, as specified in RFC 6763. [RT #37889]
Asynchronous zone loads were not handled correctly when the zone load was already in progress; this could trigger a crash in zt.c. [RT #37573]
A race during shutdown or reconfiguration could cause an assertion failure in mem.c. [RT #38979]
Some answer formatting options didn't work correctly with dig +short. [RT #39291]
Malformed records of some types, including NSAP and UNSPEC, could trigger assertion failures when loading text zone files. [RT #40274] [RT #40285]
Fixed a possible crash in ratelimiter.c caused by NOTIFY messages being removed from the wrong rate limiter queue. [RT #40350]
The default rrset-order of random
was inconsistently applied. [RT #40456]
BADVERS responses from broken authoritative name servers were not handled correctly. [RT #40427]
The BIND 9.9 (Extended Support Version) will be supported until June, 2017. https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/
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BIND 9.9.8rc1 (Extended Support Version)