Introduction BIND 9.6-ESV-R9rc2 is the second release candidate of BIND 9.6-ESV-R9. BIND 9.6-ESV is an Extended Support Version of BIND. This document summarizes changes from BIND 9.6-ESV-R8 to BIND 9.6-ESV-R9rc2. Please see the CHANGES file in the source code release for a complete list of all changes. Download The latest versions of BIND 9 software can always be found on our web site at http://www.isc.org/downloads/all. There you will find additional information about each release, source code, and pre-compiled versions for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Support Product support information is available on http://www.isc.org/services/support for paid support options. Free support is provided by our user community via a mailing list. Information on all public email lists is available at https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo. Security Fixes Prevents a named assert (crash) when validating caused by using "Bad cache" data before it has been initialized. [CVE-2012-3817] [RT #30025] A condition has been corrected where improper handling of zero-length RDATA could cause undesirable behavior, including termination of the named process. [CVE-2012-1667] [RT #29644] New Features Adds a new configuration option, "check-spf"; valid values are "warn" (default) and "ignore". When set to "warn", checks SPF and TXT records in spf format, warning if either resource record type occurs without a corresponding record of the other resource record type. [RT #33355] Adds support for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) resource records. [RT #23386] Adds support for Host Identity Protocol (HIP) resource records [RT #19384] Adds support for the EUI48 and EUI64 RR types. [RT #33082] Adds support for the RFC 6742 ILNP record types (NID, LP, L32, and L64). [RT #31836] Feature Changes Updates the built-in root hints for D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET whose IPv4 address changed to 199.7.91.13 (as of 3rd January 2013). Note that recursive servers running with an older set of root hints will still operate successfully because there are 12 other root servers whose addresses are correct and who will respond during root priming with the new root nameserver RRset. [RT #32164] Adds RFC 6598 reverse zones to the built-in empty zones list: 64.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA ... 127.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA. [RT #31336] Bug Fixes isc-config.sh did not honour includedir and libdir when set via configure. [RT #33345] Fixed a crash in nsupdate when used with the -r command-line option. [RT #33280] Fixed a bug that prevented the IXFR of DLZ-stored zones. [RT #33331] Address a possible race condition in acache.c [RT #33252] Fixed a bug with NSID that could break DNSSEC due to invalid EDNS options being sent. [RT #33153] Now properly detects and rejects additional malformed unknown rdata records. [RT #33129] Avoids race condition in data structure initialization with accepting new socket connections. [RT #33084] Fixed memory leaks in contrib/query-loc. [RT #32960] Fixed resource leaks and a buffer overrun in contrib/zkt. [RT #32960] Correct initialization errors in libdns when built in libexport mode. [RT #33028] nsupdate could exit with an assertion when the local and remote address families didn't match. [RT #22897] Fixes some potential memory leaks with gssapi usage. [RT #32405] Prevent a crash-on-shutdown race condition. [RT #32777] Fixes a couple of linked-list pointer initialization bugs. [RT #32651] Handle cases where a port is reserved and cannot be used as the source for a query. [RT #31778] Correct a case where a negative response could incorrectly be flagged as being DNSSEC authenticated when it was not actually authenticated. [RT #32237] Fix missing includes in testing support library that caused it to fail to build on some platforms. [RT #32012] Return correct error code (FORMERR) when presented with malformed requests containing overly long domain names. [RT #29682] Instead of rejecting and logging a FORMERR, named now accepts duplicate singleton records in a DNS query response. (In some situations, query responses may contain duplicates - and whilst this is not technically correct, BIND has been updated to be more tolerant). [RT #32329] When named allocates an initial per-thread stack size, it first checks the operating system's default value, and if specified, uses that. In the situation where it appears that none is provided, it uses an internal default. This default has been increased from 64K to 1M to accommodate operating systems that require a larger initial stack. [RT #32230] The allow-query-on ACL is now processed correctly in all situations. [RT #29486] The configure script now supports and detects libxml2-2.9.x correctly. [RT #32231] When loading a zone file, named now emits a warning if it encounters a non-blank owner name following $ORIGIN. The reason for this is that when parsing a zone file, the blank owner name indicates that the current name (i.e. the name from the previous record that named loaded) should be used, even though $ORIGIN has changed. Particularly when handling subdomains, this can result in those records being unexpectedly loaded with different labels than intended. [RT #31848] Resolves a problem that when answering queries for nonexistent names via wildcard CNAME records, DNSSEC responses could fail to include the NSEC/NSEC3 records proving the lack of a better answer. [RT #21409] Prevents a named abort (assertion fail) during recovery from an out of memory condition. This crash would be encountered in module general: dst_api.c and logged as REQUIRE((&key->refs)->refs == 0). [RT #32131] A new configure option --with-ecdsa has been added to force building with ECDSA, bypassing the script-based checks that this functionality is available in the build environment. The converse, --without-ecdsa, explicitly disables ECDSA support during the BIND build. Both of these options have been added to assist cross-compilation to environments that do (or don't) support ECDSA, overriding the default build behaviour. [RT #32078] XML statistics generated by Windows builds contained incorrectly formatted "boot-time" and "current-time" values. [RT #32044] dig now prints the timezone as part of the timestamp in the "WHEN" line of the output. [RT #2269] Fixes a race condition in acache.c that could cause named to crash if the acache feature was enabled. [RT #31908] Prevents named from consuming high CPU resources when re-signing if all keys are offline. [RT #31916] Addresses compilation issues when using the GNU build VPATH feature. [RT #31879] Fixes a race condition when DNSSEC validation is canceled (e.g. by server shutdown). [RT #31804] Prevents crashes on startup of named, dig and other utilities from 64-bit builds of BIND in the Solaris 11 environment. Compilers inadvertently created a 64-bit-aligned instruction/32-bit-aligned pointer issue in an area of code that is shared between many of the BIND binaries. Copying the timeval structure from control message data before using it prevents this from happening. [RT #31548] Uses IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU (or equivalent) with TCP in addition to UDP. This change addresses TCP query failures that are due to delays in learning the working PMTU when communicating via tunneled IPv6. [RT #31690] Fixes compilation errors when building with ISC_MEM_TRACKLINES or ISC_MEMPOOL_NAMES disabled and also makes ISC_MEM_DEBUG non-optional. [RT #31559] Prevents named from terminating unexpectedly during on very busy high-end servers that are using the additional section cache ("acache-enable yes;"). [RT #31253] When re-signing a zone, dnssec-signzone now removes RRSIG and NSEC records from nodes that used to be in-zone but are now below a zone cut. This situation is most likely to arise following the delegation of a subdomain where the glue (A and AAAA) records for the nameservers used to be included in the parent zone, but other scenarios are also possible. [RT #31556] Silences unnecessarily noisy OpenSSL logging by suppressing some warning messages and moving others to the "dnssec" logging category. Note that the increased logging was introduced by change 3354 (RT #29932). [RT #31497] Implements a collection of minor changes in response to warnings generated by several source code validation utilities. No instances of problems have been reported, but these code changes improve the future reliability and resilience of BIND9. [RT #31484, RT #31626] "named -V" can now report a source ID string. (This is will be of most interest to developers and troubleshooters). The source ID for ISC's production versions of BIND is defined in the "srcid" file in the build tree and is normally set to the most recent git hash. [RT #31494] dig no longer crashes when using +nssearch with +tcp. [RT #25298] OPT records are no longer removed from signed truncated query responses. Receipt of these responses might cause recursive servers to incorrectly identify the sending servers as unable to support EDNS0. [RT #31439] Message 'sucessfully validated after lower casing signer' is now logged at debug level 1 and has been moved to category "dnssec". (The misspelling is also corrected). [RT #31414] "host -C" should no longer crash with a core dump if REFUSED is received. This behaviour was an underlying cause of intermittent and often unreproducible crashes which have been experienced by users of the host command. [RT #31381] A DNSKEY lookup that encounters a CNAME will now no longer return SERVFAIL. This failure mode might have been observed in named's logfiles as a resolver format error "CNAME response for DNSKEY RR". [RT #31262] dig now consistently returns NOERROR in TSIG; prior to this change it would occasionally display '0' instead. [RT #31275] Prevents a named hang (due to a violation of lock ordering that can lead to a deadlock between threads) that may occur in some situations when generating new NSEC / NSEC3 chains. [RT #31224] Slave SOA queries now observe "use-v4-udp-ports" and "use-v6-udp-ports" ranges appropriately. Prior to this change the IPv6 port range was applied to all SOA refresh queries. Most of the time this behaviour would be unnoticed because the IPv6 port range is seldom configured separately and defaults to the IPv4 port range. But if an administrator chose to specify a null IPv6 port range ("use-v6-udp-ports { };") on a slave server, SOA refresh queries would be completely disabled. [RT #24173] named could die if a non-existant master list was referenced in an "also-notify" statement. [RT #31004] In some cases, servers were being marked as not supporting EDNS despite not receiving a successful response [RT #30811] Parsing tests for 32 bit integers will now return a range error on systems that support 64-bit longs. This change may impact administrators who have mistakenly been using serial numbers greater than 2**32 in their zone files (for example, using format YYYYMMDDXXXX) and whose zones loaded, but should have been rejected. The loaded zones would have appeared to be functioning correctly, but in some instances could suffer from operational problems (for example, when enabling IXFR). [RT #30232] Silences spurious "deleted from unreachable cache" messages. [RT #30501] When receiving a query with AD=1 named will now behave in the same way as when DO=1 is set when deciding whether to add NS RRsets to the additional section or not. Prior to this change, when a reply was constructed to a query with DO=1 and if the answer section was signed and valid then named wouldn't add untrusted NS RRsets to the additional section. But if with AD=1 (and DO=0) in the query, then it might have added available but untrusted RRsets to the response, at the same time setting AD=0. [RT #30479] Prints a summary of the cached records which make up a negative response (and that could be used for DNSSEC-authenticated proof of non-existence) as a series of comments. This change is backported from 9.7 and later branches, and will be most noticeable when inspecting cache dumps. (When dumping cache, earlier versions of 9.6 and 9.6-ESV added what appeared to be duplicate negative cache records to the output.) [RT #18885 / RT #31862] Thank You Thank you to everyone who assisted us in making this release possible. 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