ANNOUNCEMENT: NSD 2.1.2 released

NSD
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This release has various improvements and bug fixes.

Please see the README document for configuration and installation
instructions.

You can download NSD from http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/nsd/

NSD 2.1.2 release notes:

FEATURES:
         - NSD now fully supports unknown record types using the
           notation specified in RFC3597.
         - Support for the following RR types has been added: WKS, X25,
           ISDN, RT, NSAP, PX, NAPTR, KX, CERT, DNAME, and APL. DNAME
           special processing is not supported.

BUG FIXES:
         - Bug #84: NSD now uses SIGUSR1 instead of SIGILL to report
           stats.
         - Bug #85: Support for WKS records.
         - Bug #86: The characters "#%&^[]?" can now be used without
           backslash in zone file domain names.
         - Plugin callback return type fixed.
         - The maximum message length for IPv6 UDP packets is now
           limited to the IPv6 minimum MTU (1280) unless the
           IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU socket option is supported.

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NSD 2.1.2 release notes:

A small patch, otherwise HP's C compiler on Alpha/Tru64 cannot link
nsd-notify (rrtype_descriptors not found).

*** Makefile.in.orig Tue Aug 3 09:23:14 2004
--- Makefile.in Tue Aug 3 09:23:22 2004

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NSD 2.1.2 release notes:

ns2.nic.fr, secondary of 467 zones, including 19 TLD, just upgraded.

It was running nsd 1 previously. The database is much smaller (134
Mbytes instead of 460) and the process is, too (666 Mbytes instead of
995).

Response time seems unaffected.