Introduction BIND 9.6-ESV-R8b1 is the first beta release of BIND 9.6-ESV-R8. BIND 9.6-ESV is an Extended Support Version of BIND. This document summarizes changes from BIND 9.6-ESV-R7 to BIND 9.6-ESV-R8b1. 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 - None Feature Changes - Improves OpenSSL error logging [RT #29932] - nslookup now returns a nonzero exit code when it is unable to get an answer. [RT #29492] Bug Fixes - Ensures that servers are expired from the ADB cache when the timeout limit is reached so that their learned attributes can be refreshed. Prior to this change, servers that were frequently queried might never have their entries removed and reinitialized. This is of particular importance to DNSSEC-validating recursive servers that might erroneously set "no-edns" for an authoritative server following a period of intermittent connectivity. [RT #29856] - Adds additional resilience to a previous security change (3218) by preventing RRSIG data from being added to cache when a pseudo-record matching the covering type and proving non-existence exists at a higher trust level. The earlier change prevented this inconsistent data from being retrieved from cache in response to client queries - with this additional change, the RRSIG records are no longer inserted into cache at all. [RT #26809] - The tests on random jitter values that are used when handling zone refreshes have been relaxed. Prior to this change named could terminate unexpectedly when processing stub zones. [RT# 29821] - Fixes the defect introduced by change #3314 that was causing failures when saving stub zones to disk (resulting in excessive CPU usage in some cases). [RT #29952] - It is now possible to using multiple control keys again - this functionality was inadvertently broken by change #3924 (RT #28265) which addressed a memory leak. [RT #29694] - Setting resolver-query-timeout too low could cause named problems recovering after a loss of connectivity. [RT #29623] - Reduces the potential build-up of stale RRsets in cache on a busy recursive nameserver by re-using cached DS and RRSIG rrsets when possible [RT #29446] - Upper-case/lower-case handling of RRSIG signer-names is now handled consistently: RRSIG records are generated with the signer-name in lower case. They are accepted with any case, but if they fail to validate, we try again in lower case. [RT #27451] Thank You Thank you to everyone who assisted us in making this release possible. If you would like to contribute to ISC to assist us in continuing to make quality open source software, please visit our donations page at http://www.isc.org/supportisc. (c) 2001-2012 Internet Systems Consortium