BIND 9.3.0beta2 is now available. BIND 9.3.0beta2 is a beta release candidate for BIND 9.3. BIND 9.3.0 has a number of new features over 9.2, including: DNSSEC is now DS based. See doc/draft/draft-ietf-dnsext-dnssec-* DNSSEC lookaside validation (experimental). check-names is now implemented. rrset-order in more complete. IPv4/IPv6 transition support, dual-stack-servers. IXFR deltas can now be generated when loading master files, ixfr-from-differences. It is now possible to specify the size of a journal, max-journal-size. It is now possible to define a named set of master servers to be used in masters clause, masters. The advertised EDNS UDP size can now be set, edns-udp-size. allow-v6-synthesis has been obsoleted. NOTE: * Zones containing MD and MF will now be rejected. * dig, nslookup name. now report "Not Implemented" as NOTIMP rather than NOTIMPL. This will have impact on scripts that are looking for NOTIMPL. libbind: corresponds to that from BIND 8.4.5. KNOWN ISSUES: Fencepost errors in dns_name_ishostname() and dns_name_ismailbox() could trigger a INSIST(). Apply patch1 to address this issue. When specifying check-names at the view/options level you need to specify all of master, slave and response. This will be fixed in the next beta. Builds will fail on machines w/o if_nametoindex(). Missing #ifdef ISC_PLATFORM_HAVEIFNAMETOINDEX/#endif. BIND 9.3.0beta2 can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.3.0beta2/bind-9.3.0beta2.tar.gz ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.3.0beta2/patch1 The PGP signature of the distribution is at ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.3.0beta2/bind-9.3.0beta2.tar.gz.asc ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.3.0beta2/patch1.asc The signature was generated with the ISC public key, which is available at . A binary kit for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 is at ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/contrib/ntbind-9.3.0beta2/BIND9.3.0beta2.zip The PGP signature of the binary kit for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 is at ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/contrib/ntbind-9.3.0beta2/BIND9.3.0beta2.zip.asc