DNS for Rocket Scientists - Change Log

The changes made since the previous version of this document. We constantly update and correct the on-line text and note the changes made in this log for the next version. When we publish - periodically - a new version the changes noted here will, in most cases, have been available on-line for some time.

Version 1.47 15th May 2018

General - progressive upgrade to reflect latest BIND 9.x
General - progressive change to use owner-label for all left-hand names as being more descriptive and to avoid confusion with target-names (right-hand names).
Chapter 4 - typo. Increased use of the term Resolver rather than caching/recursive name server.
Chapter 6 - Split Horizon sample - current versions of BIND do not allow zones to be defined outside of views if any view clause present. Example corrected and note added.
Chapter 7 - view clause. Incorrect syntax for match-recursive-only in summary statement list at top of page (detailed explanation was correct).
Chapter 7 - views clause - current versions of BIND do not allow zones to be defined outside of views if any view clause present. Note added to clarify and confirm.
Chapter 7 - queries clause. Typo in allow-recursion-on explanation.
Chapter 8 - NAPTR minor corrections and updates to text.
Chapter 9 - Delegate a subdomain. Minor text corrections.
Appendix D - Updated RFCs.

Version 1.46 September 19th, 2017

General - progressive upgrade to reflect latest BIND 9.x
General - progressive change to use owner-label for all left-hand names as being more descriptive and to avoid confusion with target-names (right-hand names).
Chapter 5 - Updated text to reflect both Windows 10 and change of Bind install location.
Chapter 6 - Confusing description of Open DNS improved - hopefully.
Chapter 7 - invalid link to RPZ page.
Chapter 7 - xfer - broken link to pre BIND 9.9 also-notify format fixed.
Chapter 7 - zone - Added example to masters statement to show use of master-list format.
Chapter 7 - minimal-responses - additional notes and some clarifications.
Chapter 7 RPZ - Correction of typos and some text rewording.
Chapter 7 RPZ - update response-policy syntax for 9.11 enhancements.
Chapter 7 RPZ - Correction of IPv6 Trigger Name Format example.
Chapter 7 masters clause - Corrected format and syntax of masters-list structure.
Chapter 7 rate-limit statement - documentation updated to reflect current implementation.
Chapter 8 NS - Minor text changes and clarifications.
Chapter 8 NAPTR - Minor text changes and clarifications.
Chapter 9 DMARC - Typos and link update. Spec reference changed to RFC 7489. RFC 7960 reference included. Fixed error in Example 1 (expanded version).
Chapter 9 DKIM - Fixed error in Example Multiple Subdomain DKIM Signing (missing _ for domainkey).
Chapter 15 Minor text changes and usage added to Authority and Additional sections.
Appendix B - Fixed some desd links, updated HTML formatting and minor typos.
Appendix C - Update details of Knot DNS entry, added unbound and updated NSD info. Removal of dead links. Addition of intodns.com resource.
Appendix D - Update RFCs.

Version 1.45 18th November, 2016

General - progressive upgrade to reflect latest BIND 9.x
General - progressive change to use owner-label for all left-hand names as being more descriptive and to avoid confusion with target-names (right-hand names).
Chapter 2 - Updated diagram and text description for zone transfer.
Chapter 2 Incorrect link to aection 2.2.7.
Chapter 3 - Added 3.1.1 on IP Address Allocation and Delegation.
Chapter 3 - IPv6 /8 indicated 256 hosts, corrected to /120, further correction from /16 to /112.
Chapter 4 - Minor text revisions and formatting changes on Forwarding type.
Chapter 5 - Major text revisions to install BIND to new Program Files\ISC BIND 9 location on Windows platforms.
Chapter 6 - Authoritative views based configuration and Split horizon - added note on the use of Slave servers with views clause to ensure the correct zone is transferred.
Chapter 7 - additional notes on the effect of the file statement in zone clauses on Slave behavior.
Chapter 7 - invalid link to RPZ page.
Chapter 7 - RPZ: in-page links missing. Various typos and rewording.
Chapter 7 - RPZ: wrongly expanded as Request Policy Zone (it's Response Policy Zone).
Chapter 7 - RPZ: example used opening brace not parenthesis in SOA RR.
Chapter 7 - View clause - note added to cover use of Slave servers with view clause.
Chapter 8 - DNAME: Minor textual correction to an almost imcomprehensible sentence. DNAME is incomprehensible enough without our added incomprehensible descriptions.
Chapter 8 - SOA - typo correction and some clarification to the text over the effect of NOTIFY when using refresh, retry and expiry.
Chapter 8 - NAPTR - typo correction in numeric range of order field.
Chapter 8 - TXT - typo and formatting corrections. Updated SPF reference to RFC 7208.
Chapter 8 - $ORIGIN - text clarifications and addition of example fragment to show scope and use of $ORIGIN.
Chapter 9 - RPZ: wrongly expanded as Request Policy Zone (is Response Policy Zone).
Chapter 9 - Subdomain definition. Wording changes and clarification (hopefully) of scope of $ORIGIN.
Chapter 9 - DHCP Configuration. Minor spelling errors.
Chapter 10 - Dig repeated time=secs parameter.
Appendix A - $TTL - clarification of text.
Appendix D - RFC Update.
Articles - Failover Strategies - incorrectly labeled diagram replaced.

Version 1.44 15th October, 2015

General - progressive upgrade to reflect latest BIND 9.x
General - progressive upgrade to HTML5.
General - progressive change to use owner-label for all left-hand names as being more descriptive and to avoid confusion with target-names.
Info/Notes - correction of minor spelling errors.
Chapter 2 - Clarification about DNS cache use in Iterative Query description.
Chapter 7 - RPZ page. Fixed several cases where policy-response was used instead of reponse-policy. Added some more text to clarify functionality. Error in examples to exclude an IP address. Added note that Bind 9.10 map feature not currently supported for RPZ zone files.
Chapter 7 - Added masters clause page. Updated also-notify description to indicate it can be used in an options and view clause.
Chapter 8 - MX RR minor text rework and clarifications to include use of NULL MX RR.
Chapter 8 - Note about additional uses of PTR RR and clarification of wording when using PTR RRsets.
Chapter 8 - addition of the URI RR with a link to a placeholder page.
Chapter 8 - DNAME RR - correction to use ip6.arpa in examples (incorrectly defined as ipv6.arpa).
Chapter 9 - Update to SPF definition to cover use of NULL MX RR.
Appendix D - Updated RFCs.

Version 1.43 1st October 2014

General - progressive upgrade to reflect latest BIND 9.x
General - progressive upgrade to HTML5.
General - progressive change to use owner-label for all left-hand names as being more descriptive and to avoid confusion with target-names.
Index - updated to reflect additions and changes. Converted to HTML5.
Chapter 1 - Converted to HTML5.
Chapter 2 - Updated text and diagrams. Changed Iterative Query description substantially. Converted to HTML5. Typo corrections.
Chapter 3 - IPv4 and IPv6 Calculator and reverse zone generator, IPv4 reverse delegation generator added. Converted to HTML5.
Chapter 3 - Additional text about reverse-mapping of RFC 1918 (and others).
Chapter 3 - Correction to email address format in SOA statement in reverse zone generators.
Chapter 3 - Correction to comment text in IPv4 reverse map zone files. Additional text on lack on A RRs for NS RR. Minor formatting chnage.
Chapter 4 - Updated text and diagrams. Converted to HTML5. Typo corrections.
Chapter 5 - Removed Linux install - out-of-date. Some clean-up of FBSD. Converted to HTML5.
Chapter 6 - Converted to HTML5.
Chapter 6 - Reverse-map.html missing NS RRs. Corrected errors on use of PTR RRs for CNAME. Converted to HTML5.
Chapter 6 - Reverse-map-internal.html missing NS RRs. Corrected errors on use of PTR RRs for CNAME. Converted to HTML5.
Chapter 7 - view (match-clients) and address_match_list enhanced to link to use of IP Prefix notation. Typo corrections.
Chapter 7 - xfer - typos. Enhanced update-policy statement description to cover all 9.9+ options. Fix div format error.
Chapter 7 - xfer - Enhanced also-notify statement description to cover new 9.9+ format. Fixed incorrect use of () instead of {} in example.
Chapter 7 - xfer - allow-transfer. Fixed incorrect use of () instead of {} in example.
Chapter 7 - zone - add masters, masterfile-format and in-view statements. Added static-stub and redirect to zone type definitions.
Chapter 7 - added new page showing BIND 9 enhancements by release.
Chapter 7 - updated list of statements to 9.10 release.
Chapter 7 - logging clause updated to include RPZ channel.
Chapter 7 - RPZ feature description page (reponse-policy and RPZ zone files).
Chapter 7 - rate-limit statement in housekeeping page.
Chapter 7 - Added rpz and rate-limit to logging categories.
Chapter 7 - Changed default behavior for listen-on-v6.
Chapter 7 - Added prefetch statement to queries page.
Chapter 7 - Added deny-answer-addresses and deny-answer-aliases statements to query statements page.
Chapter 7 - Added disable-algorithms and disable-ds-digests to security statements page.
Chapter 7 - Added max-rsa-exponent-size to security statements page.
Chapter 7 - Added resolver-query-timeout to query statements page.
Chapter 7 - Added empty-contact, empty-server, empty-zones-enable and disable-empty-zone to query statements page. Typo corrections.
Chapter 7 - Updated required zones section to include reference to empty-zones feature.
Chapter 8 - HTML5 conversion complete.
Chapter 8 - Index. Retructured page.
Chapter 8 - MX. Fixed typo and added linking to ORIGIN substitution and blank substitution explanations.
Chapter 8 - DNAME fixed errors Example 1 and in Example 3 IPv4 reverse /20 delegation.
Chapter 8 - SOA missing comment marker in examples.
Chapter 8 - $GENERATE missing /in step parameter, lhs and rhs inverted in syntax, text errors and missing format specifier element for rhs and lhs. Added links to IPv4 and IPv6 generators
Chapter 8 - NS - added diagram.
Chapter 8 - PTR added clarification to use of RRsets for PTR RRs.
Chapter 9 - Added HOWTO for simple RPZ zone-blocker (firewall).
Chapter 9 - DNS for load balancing. Added info on getaddrinfo (and /etc/gai.conf).
Chapter 9 - updated contents list.
Chapter 9 - Using DHCP DDNS for IPv4 IPv6 and TSIG.
Chapter 9 - Virtual subdomain typo.
Chapter 9 - Subdomain delegation removed unnecessary A RR which is rejected as out-of-zone in named-checkconf.
Chapter 9 - DKIM - Added cross referencing to SPF and DMARC definition.
Chapter 9 - SPF - Added cross referencing to DMARC definition, updated to reflect RFC 7208 (obsoletes RFC 4408) .
Chapter 9 - Added DMARC TXT RR description.
Chapter 13 - Updated text and links.
Chapter 15 - Updated text and links. Converted to HTML5.
Appendix A - Typos and changed wording for $ORIGIN substitution. Added additional notes and examples.
Appendix D - Updated RFCs.

Version 1.42 20th November 2013

General - progressive upgrade to reflect latest BIND 9.x
General - progressive upgrade of HTML in preparation for HTML5.
Chapter 3 - Reverse Map delegation - added note and a link to a DNAME implementation.
Chapter 5 - Minor re-order of content and typo corrections for windows 7 installations.
Chapter 6 - Wording changes and addition of hyperlinking in some zone files.
Chapter 7 - view clause. Additional clarifications and added cross references.
Chapter 7 - listen-on-v6 - additional note on not starting bind with -4 argument.
Chapter 8 - Index page - update of RFC reference for some RRs, minor wording clarifications.
Chapter 8 - addition of EUI48 and EUI64 RR types to RR table.
Chapter 8 - CNAME - clarification to be a single name.
Chapter 8 - DNAME - update of RFC reference and addition of description and examples.
Chapter 8 - A6 - to historical status.
Chapter 8 - NS - clarifications and wording changes.
Chapter 8 - $GENERATE - additional notes on how to save an expanded zone file which includes a $GENERATE directive.
Chapter 8 - NAPTR - with worked examples using ENUM, NAPTR regexp tester.
Chapter 9 - dnsbl - layout error correction.
Chapter 9 - Reverse Map delegation - added note and a link to a DNAME implementation.
Chapter 9 - Added placeholder for DHCP updating of forward and reverse map files for IPv4 and IPv6.
Appendix D - Updated RFCs.

Version 1.41 21st May 2013

General - progressive upgrade to reflect BIND 9.9
Chapter 3 - Corrected error on alternative IPv6 mapping
Chapter 3 - Removed reference to mandatory IPv6 reverse mapping. Clarification to named.conf file at ISP in reverse subnet delegation.
Chapter 4 - Reword Open/Close DNS to improve understanding
Chapter 7 - zone clause missing ; in masters statement
Chapter 7 - Serial number fix error.
Chapter 7 - Queries - typo.
Chapter 8 - SOA RR - clarifications to reflect the use of the min/nx field and a note on the use of a blank name/owner field.
Chapter 9 - Subnet reverse mapping - clarification of changes to named.conf files at ISP and correction in subnet delegation IP address ranges.
Chapter 9 - Load Balancing - minor corrections and clarifications.
Chapter 9 - SPF ptr:domain was incorrectly shown as ptr/domain.
Chapter 9 - SPF additional text for pre conditions, new result matrix, additional example for ptr type, expanded Example 2.
Chapter 9 - SPF changed text to improve clarity and to note the location of the various types of SPF/TXT RRs. Correction of some errors.
Appendix A - Minor corrections to ORIGIN Substitution rule page.
Appendix C - Changes, deletions and updates to resources.
Appendix D - Updates to RFC list.

Version 1.40 September 21st 2011

General - progressive upgrade to reflect BIND 9.7
Chapter 3 - Addition of IPv6 Reverse Mapping.
Chapter 4 - Wording chnages on split-horizon to include load-balancing.
Chapter 5 - BIND 9 Installation on Windows 7.
Chapter 6 - Wording chnages on split-horizon to include load-balancing.
Chapter 7 - sortlist - correction of a comment field and minor wording changes.
Chapter 7 - address_match_list - clarifications and minor wording changes.
Chapter 7 - Add allow-query-cache, allow-query-cache-on, allow-recursion-on, allow-query-on, dnssec-enable, dnssec-validation.
Chapter 9 - Corrections and clarifications to DKIM TXT RR HOWTO.
Chapter 9 - Additions to Load-Balancing HOWTO to cover use of Split-Horizon and additional text on SRV-aware applications.
Chapter 9 - Updates and clarifications to Closed vs Open DNS.
Appendix D - Updates to RFC list.

Version 1.39 August 17th 2010

General - progressive upgrade to reflect BIND 9.7
Info - Error in SPF link in note on TTLs
Chapter 4 - New section 4.2.1 containing some notes on slaves acting as masters.
Chapter 7 - xfer - Removal of also-notify limitation on use in master zone only. It can be used in a slave zone. Removal of master zone limitation for notify-source and notify-source-v6.
Chapter 7 - xfer - Rework text on notify behavior.
Chapter 7 - queries - Correction of error in sortlist (2nd Preference in 2nd block).
Chapter 7 - acl clause - negative acl example.
Chapter 8 - TXT - Additional notes and examples added.
Chapter 8 - NS - Additional notes and minor corrections.
Chapter 9 - Added DKIM TXT RR HOWTO.
Chapter 9 - Load Balancing - spelling errors.
Chapter 9 - SPF - minor wording changes for clarification.
Appendix D - RFC update.

Version 1.38 28th January, 2010

General - progressive upgrade to reflect BIND 9.6.
Chapter 2 - minor text errors.
Chapter 3 - correction to zone files to replace # with ; as $TTL comment separator.
Chapter 6 - Split Horizon - minor text clarifications and some rewording.
Chapter 7 - xfer - Removal of also-notify limitation on use in master zone only. It can be used in a slave zone. Removal of master zone limitation for notify-source and notify-source-v6.
Chapter 7 - queries - minor text changes.
Chapter 7 - queries - warning note about use of ports with query-source[-v6].
Chapter 7 - statement list - check-names incorrectly showed opt, server clauses - corrected to show opt, view clauses. Added use-v4-udp-ports and use-v6-udp-ports.
Chapter 7 - Correction of error (extra brace) in the "badguys" view example.
Chapter 8 - Minor clarifications and reworking of intro text and $ORIGIN description.
Chapter 8 - Additional detail on use of MX RR.
Chapter 8 - Minor changes to SRV RR.
Chapter 9 - Load Balancing and Mail notes - some minor text changes and clarifications.
Chapter 9 - Serial number fix when sum exceeds 4294967295.
Chapter 9 - SPF - correction of spelling errors.
Chapter 9 - Delegation of sub-domain missing priority in MX record from first example.
Appendix D - RFC update.

Version 1.37 August 26th 2009

General - progressive upgrade to reflect BIND 9.6.
Chapter 2 - minor update and rewording of text
Chapter 3 - correction to a comment in the delegated reverse zone file refered to adresses 0 - 63 whereas the examples used 0 - 31. The file fragment was otherwise correct.
Chapter 4 - Add Split Horizon DNS type
Chapter 6 - Update to naming convention to cover windows locations
Chapter 6 - Add Split Horizon DNS configuration
Chapter 7 - View clause incorrect name (match-destination should be match-destinations) and corrected links for query-source[-V6], match-destinations and match-recursive-only
Chapter 7 - Update list of statements to BIND 9.6
Chapter 8 - SOA RR - Spelling errors, wording clarification.
Chapter 9 - SPF - error in SPF MX/CIDR example (incorrectly used :). Addition of CIDR explanation link and correction of some minor spelling errors.
Chapter 9 - SPF - error in SPF {%v} example (incorrectly used :)expansion to ip6 not ipv6.
Chapter 9 - SPF - additional example of macro exapansion in example 5.
Chapter 9 - Serial number fix - The algorithm was correct but the explanation was a little imprecise (read wrong)!
Appendix A - Addition of Sensible TTL Values and Failover Strategy notes
Appendix A - Additional notes,clarifications and examples on $ORIGIN substitution.
Appendix D - Update to RFC references

Version 1.36 27th August 2008

Chapter 2 - Minor corrections to wording in order to, hopefully, improve the explanations. Update of DNSSEC specification references. Correction of minor typos.
Chapter 5 - Updated to include BIND 9.4.x, FreeBSD 6.x and support of Windows XP/2003.
Chapter 7 - server clause - correction or link errors, addition of keys statement
Chapter 7 - controls clause - minor typos
Chapter 7 - servers clause - minor typos
Chapter 7 - zone clause - minor typos
Chapter 7 - ixfr-from-differences - minor typos
Chapter 8 - Correction of spelling errors.
Chapter 8 - SOA incorrect RFC reference - corrected reference is RFC 2142 (was 2412).
Chapter 8 - SRV RR. Correction ot minor typos and some rewording. Addition of a new example and some notes on its use in PKIX (RFC 4386 and 4210).
Chapter 8 - NS RRs - minor corrections and clarification of two name servers for public domains, private domains may use less.
Chapter 8 - A RRs - additional note on relationship between host name and A RRs.
Chapter 8 - CNAME RRs - gramatical error.
Chapter 9 - wwww.example.com and example.com - minor typos
Chapter 9 - serial number fix - error in example serial number and incorrectly written formula.
Chapter 9 - SPF - exp example used TXT twice rather than TXT and SPF RRs and incorrectly showed ext rather than exp as the keyword.
Chapter 9 - subdomains - addition of explanatory material and linsk when using blank and @ substitution.
Appendix A - Addition examples over blank substitution
Appendix C - Updated reference to DNRD moved to http://dnrd.sourceforge.net/.
Appendix D - Update to RFC references

Version 1.35 1st December 2007

Chapter 5 - correction of title to Berkeley Internet Name Domain
Chapter 7 - correction of broken links
Chapter 7 - addition of link from address_match_list to sortlist
Chapter 8 - correction of RR type value for DS, SPF and NAPTR
Chapter 8 - correction of broken links
Chapter 8 - CNAME - additional examples
Chapter 9 - Delegate subdomain - error in supposedly helpful comment renders it more confusing.
Chapter 9 - SPF - incorrectly showed ipv4 in the ipv6/cidr example
Chapter 10 - correction of broken links
Appendix A - correction of broken links
Appendix D - missing RFCs.

Version 1.34 July 5th 2007

Chapter 4 - Windows Installation - Bad news: BIND is no longer (post 9.3.2) supported on NT4.0. Good News: Windows XP/2003 is now supported.
Chapter 6 - DNS Types - layout changes and additional notes on mixed configurations and authoritative only servers.
Chapter 8 - Addition of the SPF RR type
Chapter 8 - Addition of a placeholder comment for DKIM's use of the TXT RR.
Chapter 9 - HOWTO Close DNS (and protect against DoS and Cache Poisoning)
Chapter 9 - HOWTO Define an SPF Record - correction of one remaining {} error, and the addition of the SPF RR type supported by BIND 9.4.
Chapter 10 - addition of short overview of tools and utilities provided. Minor formatting changes.
Chapter 10 - dig - minor layout error corrections.
Appendix D - update the reflect the latest DNS RFCs.

Version 1.33 9th May 2007

Chapter 3 - Reverse Map Delegation - addition of $TTL directives and explanation of character set usage. Change to example.com
Chapter 7 - sortlist statement - error in example.
Chapter 8 - $ORIGIN directive - minor corrections to text.
Chapter 9 - Reverse Delegation HOWTO - addition of a cross reference to the BIND specific $GENERATE directive and minor corrections to text.
Chapter 9 - HOWTO Configure Subdomain - missing dot on the $ORIGIN directive.
Chapter 9 - HOWTO Define an SPF Record - incorrectly used parenthesis as a delimter - should be braces {}.
Appendix A - 'When to use the DOT' - Minor reworking and clarifications. Use of example.com in fragments.
Appendix A - 'How Resolvers work' - Minor reworking and clarifications.
Appendix A - 'Referrals' - Minor text rework.
Appendix A - 'The DOT in a zone file' - Minor text rework and expanded examples to clarify FQDN.
Appendix A - $ORIGIN and @ substitution - Minor text rework and exanded examples to illustrate blank name (label) substitution. Typo in fragment example.
Appendix A - BIND Statement layout variations. Change to example.com.
Appendix C - Resources update.

Version 1.32 July 7th 2006

Chapter 1 - Terminology and Conventions. Correction of typos and some minor reworking for clarity. Addition of SLDs
Chapter 2 - Second 2.3.2 reversed order or items (2) and (3).
Chapter 6 - IPv6 reverse map - correction of reverse map domain to IP6.ARPA (incorrectly defined as IPV6.ARPA)
Chapter 7 - query-source and query-source-v6 - incorrect link
Chapter 7 - acl example - incorrect use of also-notify, replaced with allow-notify
Chapter 7 - allow-transfer - change of text explanation to cover denial of service attacks
Chapter 9 - reverse map delegation - correction to IN-ADDR.ARPA in first sample (incorrectly defined as IN_ADDR.ARPA)
Chapter 9 - reverse map delegation - minor corrections, addition of PTR RR to the ISP file and change of wording.
Chapter 10 - Addition of section on DNSBL's

Version 1.31 11th November 2005

Chapter 4 - removal of file statement in zone specific forward example (4.4) - not required

Version 1.30 November 4th 2005

Chapter 4 - Closing of Open DNS servers note
Chapter 6 - Closing of Open DNS servers note and configuration changes

Version 1.29 15th October 2005

Chapter 8 - SOA additional examples and correction of link errors.
Chapter 8 - Addition of placeholders for KEY, DNSKEY, DS, RRSIG and NSEC RRs with a brief description of functionality and purpose only.
Chapter 9 - Additional of HOWTO Fix SOA RR serial numbers.
Chapter 10 - separation of utilities into separate pages.
Chapter 8 - Addition of placeholders for dnsssec-keygen and dnssec-signzone with a brief description of functionality and purpose only.

Version 1.28 10th August 2005

General - progressive change to use hostmaster.example.com. in SOA RRs as per RFC 1912
General - progressive change to use use $TTL and $ORIGIN in all examples
General - BIND 9.3.0 update.
Chapter 5 - FreeBSD install change base install make parameter.
Chapter 8 - CNAME update.
Chapter 8 - $GENERATE directive added.
Appendix A - Correction of error in CIDR.
Appendix C - Update to resources.
Appendix D - Add RFC 3425, RFC4033, RFC 4034 and RFC 4035

Version 1.27 March 16th 2005 (really twice in one day)

General - progressive change to use hostmaster.example.com. in SOA RRs as per RFC 1912
General - progressive change to use use $TTL and $ORIGIN in all examples
General - BIND 9.3.0 update.
General - Addition of size value to logging statement to control file.
Chapter 6 - change of file naming convention to use master and slave not pri and sec to minimise confusion.
Chapter 6 - change master server named.conf to use allow-transfer {none;}; in global clause and explicitly allow-transfer to slave in master only as a more generally useful for multi-master configurations.
Chapter 7 - allow-transfer - policy example
Chapter 9 - domain delegations - add explicit use of allow-transfer.

Version 1.26 March 16th 2005

General - progressive change to use hostmaster.example.com. in SOA RRs as per RFC 1912
General - progressive change to use use $TTL and $ORIGIN in all examples
General - BIND 9.3.0 update
Chapter 8 - Reformat Index Page
Chapter 8 - A RR minor corrections
Chapter 8 - AAAA RR (IPv6) description.
Chapter 8 - PTR RR Add Ipv6 description and example.
Chapter 8 - SVR RR corrections to second example.
Chapter 15 - correction to text of Answer, Authoritative and Additional Section generic format.
Chapter 15 - Update to responses for EDNS0.
Appendix D - Add RFC 2230, RFC 2538, RFC 2539, RFC 2541, RFC 2931, RFC 3548, RFC 3655, RFC 3658, RFC 3757, RFC 3833, RFC 3845, RFC 3958, RFC 4025. DNSSEC.bis draft RFCs

Version 1.25 March 6th 2005

General - progressive change to use hostmaster.example.com. in SOA RRs as per RFC 1912
General - progressive change to use use $TTL and $ORIGIN in all examples
General - BIND 9.3.0 update
Chapter 1 - Explanation of clause and statement terminology in named.conf.
Chapter 5 - FC2 install - error in dependency - nscd not ncsd.
Chapter 7 - change to use clause and statement terminology.
Chapter 7 - ACL clause - error corrections to braces
Chapter 7 - Logging clause - updates and rewrites
Chapter 7 - Zone clause, type and masters statements updated for BIND 9.3.0
Chapter 7 - Zone - add check-names statement
Chapter 7 - Zone add delegation-only type and statement
Chapter 7 - Options - status updated for BIND 9.3.0
Chapter 7 - Classification of statements
Chapter 7 - add avoid-v4-udp-ports and avoid-v6-udp-ports statements.
Chapter 7 - add alt-transfer-source and alt-transfer-source-v6 statements.
Chapter 7 - add dialup statement.
Chapter 7 - correction to notify-source and notify-source-v6.
Chapter 7 - Add use-alt-transfer-source statement.
Chapter 7 - correction and updates to listen-on-v6, max-cache-size statements.
Chapter 7 - add bogus statement.
Chapter 7 - Queries Category - error in auth-nxdomain - wrong title.
Chapter 7 - Transfers Category - allow-notify - correct wording.
Appendix C - Addition of Constrict Python interface libraries.
Appendix A - Update name and label rules.

Version 1.24 11th February 2005

General - progressive change to use hostmaster.example.com. in SOA RRs as per RFC 1912
General - progressive change to use use $TTL and $ORIGIN in all examples
Chapter 8 - Corrections to errors in $ORIGIN directive and change to use example.com.
Chapter 8 - Corrections to errors in A RR and change to use example.com.
Chapter 8 - Extended discussion of CNAME RR
Chapter 8 - Minor changes to MX RR
Chapter 8 - NS RR additional of glue record explanation and changed to use example.com.
Chapter 8 - SOA RR minor clarifications to serial number field and changed to use example.com.
Chapter 8 - SRV RR updated and changed to use example.com.
Chapter 9 - Update to SPF information.
Appendix A - Referral update.
Appendix A - Addition of RFC2181 reference in TTL value.

Version 1.23 4th February 2005

General - change to use hostmaster.example.com. in SOA RRs as per RFC 1912
Chapter 7 - rrset-order option available > BIND 9.2.4. Example added.
Chapter 8 - SRV RR missing dot in example.
Chapter 9 - SPF minor corrections, update current SPF draft spec
Chapter 9 - load-balancing significant upgrades and corrections following experimentation
Chapter 9 - changes to correct minor errors in sub-domain delegation
Chapter 9 - mail fail-over changed to use an external mail server (in an external domain)
Appendix D - Addition of RFC 1794.

Version 1.22 January 23rd 2005

Chapter 5 - Addition of Fedora Core 2 (Linux) to installation
Chapter 5 - Addition of Windows 2000 Server to installation and correction of some errors
Chapter 5 - Addition of BIND Command Line Arguments
Chapter 8 - Addition of IPv6 AAAA RR.
Chapter 8 - Note to A6 and DNAME RRs to indicate current status (EXPERIMENTAL) and restore AAAA and PTR RRs to operational usage for IPv6.
Chapter 8 - Addition of IPv6 data to PTR RR.
Appendix D - Addition of RFC 2694.
Appendix D - Addition of RFC 3363.
Appendix D - Addition of RFC 3596.
Appendix D - Addition of RFC 1886.

Version 1.21 January 12th 2005

Chapter 1 - Terminology - some corrections and clarifications to FQDN, host name and addition of unqualified domain name.
Chapter 5 - Install on FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x
Chapter 5 - Install BIND on Windows NT 4.0
Chapter 6 - Updated root.servers file
Chapter 6 - minor corrections to named.conf files
Chapter 6 - mydomain.html updated to use example.com
Chapter 6 - mydomain-internal.html updated to use example.com and corrected error with CNAME on an MX RR
Chapter 6 - mydomain-external.html updated to use example.com
Chapter 6 - reverse-map.html updated to use example.com and clarification of what records can appear in the reverse map file.
Chapter 6 - reverse-map-reverse.html updated to use example.com and clarification of what records can appear in the reverse map file.
Chapter 7 - pid-file options parameter requires a quoted string.
Chapter 7 - directory options parameter requires a quoted string.
Chapter 7 - zone type - clarification and correction of the use of expiry and refresh SOA values.
Chapter 15 - Correction of error in definition of QR bit of message header.
Appendix D - RFC 2874 change of status from PROPOSED STANDARD to EXPERIMENTAL.

Version 1.20 November 16th 2004

Chapter 8 - Correction to $TTL directive - standarized in RFC 2308)
Chapter 8 - $ORIGIN directive updated to use example.com
Chapter 8 - NS RR updated to use example.com
Chapter 8 - CNAME RR updated to use example.com and some additional clarification.
Chapter 8 - SOA RR - addition of class field description, clarification of use of some fields
Chapter 9 - Updated suppress.html to remove CNAME and clarify a couple of points
Appendix A - Correction to $TTL (defined in RFC 2308) updated to use example.com. Addition comments and alignment with RFC 1912 recommendations.
Appendix D - Addition of RFC 2308

Version 1.19 November 6th 2004

Chapter 7 - Correction to transfers-out statement (was transfer-out)
Chapter 8 - Error in SOA examples for min time
Chapter 9 - Updated suppress.html to use Apache ServerAlias directive.

Version 1.18 November 1st 2004

Chapter 1 - Terminology - SLD
Chapter 2 - introduction of SLD term and FQDN
Chapter 2 - change mydomain to example in all examples!
Chapter 2 - removal of references to root-servers and TLDs servers running concurrently - not true since late 2003.
Chapter 2 - minor reformatting to Recursive and Iterative query sequences
Chapter 4 - change mydomain to example in all examples!
Chapter 4 - clarification of when a query response is Authoritative.
Appendix A - clarification of resolver functionality and definition of 'stub' resolver
Appendix A - definition of referral

Version 1.17 October 17th 2004

Chapter 6 - error in master named.conf incorrectly specified transfer-allow (corrected to allow-transfer)
Chapter 7 - incorrect syntax in allow-transfer example (xfer.html)
Chapter 10 - addition of nslookup and dig tools

Version 0.1.16 September 13th 2004

Chapter 8 - MX RR addition of subdomain configuration
Chapter 8 - Addition of Zone file directives
Chapter 9 - HOWTO Configure Virtual subdomains - addition of an MX record
Chapter 9 - HOWTO Configure Delegated subdomains - addition of an MX record

Version 0.1.15 July 19th 2004

Contents section - chapter 15 - errors
Chapter 9 - HOWTO Configure an SPF record
Chapter 8 - Cross Reference in TXT record to SPF HOWTO
Chapter 8 - A RR minor clarification if name field left BLANK

Version 0.1.14 June 2004

Chapter 8 - Removed reference to Binary format in resource records - changed to Generic
Chapter 8 - changed SOA record examples to reflect values defined in RFC 1912
Appendix A - Addition of CIDR Summary
Appendix A - Addition of Name/Label valid character
Appendix A - Clarified TTL value range per RFC 2181.

Version 0.1.13 June 2004

Chapter 15 - DNS Query/Response Network Message Formats

Version 0.1.12 15th May 2004

Chapter 2 - added section numbering.
Chapter 2 - addition of Zone Update Section (2.2.7) (includes AXFR, IXFR, NOTIFY and Dynamic Updates.
Chapter 2 - added DNS security overview.
Chapter 3 - added section numbering and trivial corrections.
Chapter 4 - corrected and added section numbering.
Chapter 4 - explain term 'Primary master'.
Chapter 5 - added section numbering
Chapter 7 - addition of server statement
Chapter 7 - addition of transfers clause
Chapter 7 - correction of transfers-per-ns clause (was transfer-per-ns)
Chapter 8 - SOA record addition of 'Primary Master' explanation.
Chapter 13 - Added placemarker for DNS Security.
Appendix D - addition of RFC 1995, 2336, 3445.

Version 0.1.11

Chapter 7 - deleted hostname option statement - no references available.
Chapter 7 - allow-update-forwarding option statement correction.
Chapter 7 - minimal-responses option statement added.
Chapter 7 - provide-ixfr option statement added.
Chapter 7 - request-ixfr option statement added.
Chapter 7 - allow-update option statement added.
Chapter 7 - tcp-clients option statement added.
Chapter 7 - recursive-clients option statement added.
Chapter 7 - Clarification of 'include' statement not same as $INCLUDE directive.
Chapter 8 - Correction of error in first example file.
Chapter 8 - $INCLUDE format definition.

Version 0.1.10

Chapter 8 - MX record examples incorrectly used NS not MX.
Chapter 8 - NS clarified 'name' formats.
Chapter 8 - SOA added more examples - missing dot in examples.

Version 0.1.9

Chapter 1 - minor typos.
Chapter 4 - Minor typos.
Chapter 6 - addition of allow-notify and allow-transfer options in most files to minimise cache poisoning, maximise performance or maintain privacy.
Chapter 7 - addition of version, pid-file and port options.

Version 0.1.8

Chapter 7 - view.html minor typo
Chapter 9 - round robin - update of section and correction of links.
Appendix C - Minor updates to alternate software section.

Version 0.1.7

Chapter 6 - example configurations added
Chapter 4 - minor corrections

Version 0.1.6

Change of title to DNS for Rocket Scientists
ch8 - changed intro section to cover zone file general layout first.
updated Chapter 1 - objectives.
Chapter 7 (named.conf) - acl statement
Chapter 7 (named.conf) - options statements
Chapter 7 (named.conf) - include statement
Chapter 7 (named.conf) - logging statement
Chapter 7 (named.conf) - required zone files
Chapter 7 (named.conf) - view statement
Chapter 7 (named.conf) - zone statement
Chapter 10 placeholder for troubleshooting
Chapter 11 placeholder for error messages
Chapter 12 placeholder for APIs
APP A: - resolver description
APP A: - BIND named.conf layouts
APP D: - updated RFC list

Version 0.1.5

ch2 - added notes on reverse mapping named.conf changes.
ch8 - added PTR record description
ch8 - $ORIGIN Definition
ch8 - $TTL Definition
APP C: - updated resource sites
APP D: - updated RFC list

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