Introduction

   BIND 9.9.1 is the latest production release of BIND 9.9.

   This document summarizes changes from BIND 9.9.0 to BIND 9.9.1.
   Please see the CHANGES file in the source code release for a
   complete list of all changes.

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   find additional information about each release, source code, and
   pre-compiled versions for Microsoft Windows operating systems.

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Security Fixes

*  Windows binary packages distributed by ISC are now built and linked
   against OpenSSL 1.0.0i

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]

*  A note will be added to the README in future releases to explain
   that the improved scalability provided by using multiple threads
   to listen for and process queries (change 3137, RT #22992) does
   not provide any performance benefit when running BIND on versions
   of the linux kernel that do not include the 'lockless UDP transmit
   path' changes that were incorporated in 2.6.39.  (Some linux
   distributors may have provided this functionality under their
   own version numbering systems).

Bug Fixes

*  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]

*  named-checkconf now correctly validates dns64 clients acl
   definitions. [RT #27631]

*  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]

*  Improves DNS64 reverse zone performance. [RT #28563]

*  Adds wire format lookup method to sdb. [RT #28563]

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

*  Prevents intermittent named crashes following an rndc reload [RT
   #28606]

*  Resolves inconsistencies in locating DNSSEC keys where zone names
   contain characters that require special mappings [RT #28600]

*  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]

*  Prevents named crashes as a result of dereferencing a NULL pointer
   in zmgr_start_xfrin_ifquota if the zone was being removed while
   there were zone transfers still pending [RT #28419]

*  Corrects a parser bug that could cause named to crash while
   reading a malformed zone file. [RT #28467]

*  Ensures that when a client recurses its status fields are
   consistently set so that named doesn't fail on an INSIST in
   client.c:exit_check. [RT #28346]

*  Fixed a problem preventing proper use of 64 bit time values in
   libbind. [RT # 26542]

*  isccc/cc.c:table_fromwire could fail to free an allocated object
   on error, leading to a possible memory leak condition. [RT #28265]

*  Fixed a build error on systems without ENOTSUP.  [RT #28200]

*  The header file isc/hmacsha.h is now installed when building
   BIND. [RT #28169]

*  AAAA responses will no longer be returned in the additional
   section when filter-aaaa-on-v4 is in use.  (Prior to this change,
   they would be returned for some query types). [RT #27292]


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