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1.1     ! root        1: 
        !             2: Welcome to version 4.8 of bind.
        !             3: 
        !             4: There have been several changes to the named boot file (/etc/named.boot)
        !             5: of which you should be aware.  The "domain" line for each zone is no longer
        !             6: needed, but one such line may still be used to specify a default domain
        !             7: to be used for queries containing names with only a single component.
        !             8: The term "suffixes", which was added in version 4.7alpha, has been removed.
        !             9: 
        !            10: The manual page on named (named.8) has been updated to reflect all
        !            11: these changes.  Please read this and look at the example files
        !            12: before installation.  You should also note the changes in the
        !            13: resolver code to support non-fully-qualified addresses and per-user
        !            14: host aliases.  See hostname(7) for an overview.  Two new routines
        !            15: have been added to the resolver library since the last test release:
        !            16: res_query formulates a query, sends it, waits for a response and does
        !            17: preliminary error checking; res_search implements the search rules
        !            18: of gethostbyname using res_query.
        !            19: 
        !            20: The MX lookup routine in sendmail has been modified to use res_search.  
        !            21: Also, dn_skip takes an additional parameter and has been renamed
        !            22: to dn_skipname.  While old sendmail binaries will work with the new
        !            23: version of bind, because of these changes, it is desirable to install
        !            24: new sendmail sources and recompile sendmail.  Do not rebuild sendmail 
        !            25: from old sources.   The new sendmail is on ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU for
        !            26: anonymous FTP from pub/4.3/sendmail.MX.tar and pub/4.3/sendmail.MX.tar.Z.
        !            27: 
        !            28: There have been numerous changes to named, fixing most of the known
        !            29: bugs that can be fixed without major structural changes in the server.
        !            30: Several server configurations that failed before should now work.
        !            31: Certain robustness problems have been fixed, in particular bounds-
        !            32: checking when processing incoming packets.  Two changes have been made
        !            33: in preparation for negative caching: SOA records are sent in the authority
        !            34: section in negative responses with NXDOMAIN set, and a bug was fixed that
        !            35: caused confusion and repeated requests if a response had no error, no answer
        !            36: and an SOA in the authority section.  As such responses are already sent
        !            37: by other servers, and will be sent by the next release of BIND, it is
        !            38: important that all sites upgrade to this version as quickly as possible.
        !            39: 
        !            40: The root "hint" cache and cache file remain the largest problem area,
        !            41: along with named's naivete in accepting bogus server's data.
        !            42: These will be addressed in the next release, along with asynchronous
        !            43: zone transfers, intelligent reloading of zone files, faster startup,
        !            44: and caching of negative responses.
        !            45: 
        !            46: This version (4.8) will replace the last officially released version (4.5).
        !            47: Version 4.5 has a serious bug that causes the generation of a continuous
        !            48: stream of bogons to the root domain servers (bogus queries with the query
        !            49: response bit set and possibly garbage for nsid and rcode).  It is imperative
        !            50: that these versions of named be replaced as fast as possible.  We urge you to
        !            51: field 4.8 quickly, for the sake of the root domain servers.
        !            52: 
        !            53:        Mike Karels
        !            54:        Jean Wood
        !            55:        [email protected]

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