From 54ca4741278b2922e22ce36af44c6dfcbacff5f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jakob Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 20:49:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] shorten, document flavours; wcobb --- net/bind9/pkg/DESCR | 65 ++++----------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/bind9/pkg/DESCR b/net/bind9/pkg/DESCR index a9570f76dd1..4dd20e66f64 100644 --- a/net/bind9/pkg/DESCR +++ b/net/bind9/pkg/DESCR @@ -1,66 +1,11 @@ BIND version 9 is a major rewrite of nearly all aspects of the underlying BIND architecture. This re-architecting of BIND was necessitated by the -expected demands of: +expected demands of domain name system growth, the need for secure queries +and zone transfers as well as IP version 6. - - Domain name system growth, particularly in very large - zones such as .COM - - Protocol enhancements necessary to securely query and - update zones - - Protocol enhancements necessary to take advantage of - certain architectural features of IP version 6 +Flavours: -These demands implied performance requirements that were not necessarily -easy to attain with the BIND version 8 architecture. In particular, BIND -must not only be able to run on multi-processor multi-threaded systems, -but must take full advantage of the performance enhancements these -architectures can provide. In addition, the underlying data storage -architecture of BIND version 8 does not lend itself to implementing -alternative back end databases, such as would be desirable for the support -of multi-gigabyte zones. As such zones are easily foreseeable in the -relatively near future, the data storage architecture needed revision. The -feature requirements for BIND version 9 included: - - - Scalability - Thread safety - Multi-processor scalability - Support for very large zones - - - Security - Support for DNSSEC - Support for TSIG - Auditability (code and operation) - Firewall support (split DNS) - - - Portability - - - Maintainability - - - Protocol Enhancements - IXFR, DDNS, Notify, EDNS0 - Improved standards conformance - - - Operational enhancements - High availability and reliability - Support for alternative back end databases - - - IP version 6 support - IPv6 resource records (A6, DNAME, etc.) - Bitstring labels - APIs - -BIND version 9 development has been underwritten by the following -organizations: - - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hewlett Packard - Compaq Computer Corporation - IBM - Process Software Corporation - Silicon Graphics, Inc. - Network Associates, Inc. - U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency - USENIX Association - Stichting NLnet - NLnet Foundation + static Do not use shared libraries + threads Build a multi-threaded named WWW: ${HOMEPAGE} -