[release-notes: 1/2] Added information on Networking

[Abdel G. Martínez L.]

commit 6168f9ffe27596cfeb7709d1772211fcf06aacb5
Author: Abdel G. Martinez L <abdel.g.martinez.l at gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Apr 20 11:27:01 2015 -0500

    Added information on Networking

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diff --git a/en-US/Networking.xml b/en-US/Networking.xml
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@@ -7,6 +7,84 @@
 <section id="networking">  
   <title>Networking</title>
   <para />
+	<section id="networking-BIND">
+		<title>BIND</title>
+		<para>BIND has been updated to the latest major release 9.10. This release comes with new features, some of which are listed below.</para>
+                <itemizedlist>
+                  <listitem>
+                    <para>New zone file format, "map", stores zone data in a format that can be mapped directly into memory, allowing significantly faster zone loading.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+                  <listitem>
+                    <para>New tool "delv" (domain entity lookup and validation) with dig-like semantics for looking up DNS data and performing internal DNSSEC validation has been added.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+                  <listitem>
+                    <para>New "prefetch" option improving the recursive resolver performance has been added.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+                  <listitem>
+                    <para>Improved EDNS processing allowing better resolver performance.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+                  <listitem>
+                    <para>Substantial improvements have been made in response-policy zone (RPZ) performance.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+                  <listitem>
+                    <para>ACLs can now be specified based on geographic location using the MaxMind GeoIP databases.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+                  <listitem>
+                    <para>The statistics channel can now provide data in JSON format as well as XML.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+                  <listitem>
+                    <para>The new "in-view" zone option allows zone data to be shared between views, so that multiple views can serve the same zones authoritatively without storing multiple copies in memory.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+                  <listitem>
+                    <para>Native PKCS#11 API has been added.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+                  <listitem>
+                    <para>New tool "named-rrchecker" can be used to check the syntax of individual resource records.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+                  <listitem>
+                    <para>New tool "dnssec-importkey" allows "offline" DNSSEC keys.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+                  <listitem>
+                    <para>Network interfaces are re-scanned automatically whenever they change.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+                  <listitem>
+                    <para>New "max-zone-ttl" option enforces maximum TTLs for zones.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+                  <listitem>
+                    <para>Multiple DLZ databases can now be configured, and are searched in order to find one that can answer an incoming query.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+                  <listitem>
+                    <para>"named-checkzone" and "named-compilezone" can now read journal files.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+                </itemizedlist>
+                <para>This release also includes feature changes, some of which are listed below.</para>
+		<itemizedlist>
+		  <listitem>
+                    <para>The version 3 XML schema for the statistics channel, including new statistics and a flattened XML tree for faster parsing, is no longer optional.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+		  <listitem>
+                    <para>The option "named" now listens on IPv6 as well as IPv4 interfaces by default.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+		  <listitem>
+                    <para>The internal and export versions of the BIND libraries have been unified so that external library clients can use the same libraries as BIND itself.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+		  <listitem>
+                    <para>The default setting for the -U option has been adjusted to improve performance.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+		  <listitem>
+                    <para>Adaptive mutex locks are now used on systems which support them.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+		  <listitem>
+                    <para>The option "rndc flushtree" now flushes matching records from the address database and bad cache as well as the DNS cache.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+		  <listitem>
+                    <para>The isc_bitstring API is no longer used and has been removed from the libisc library.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+		  <listitem>
+                    <para>The timestamps included in RRSIG records can now be read as integers indicating the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch, in addition to being read as formatted dates in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format.</para>
+                  </listitem>
+		</itemizedlist>
+		<para>For more information about the release, go read the BIND 9.10 Release Notes at <ulink url="http://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.10.0-P2/RELEASE-NOTES-BIND-9.10.0-P2.txt">http://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.10.0-P2/RELEASE-NOTES-BIND-9.10.0-P2.txt</ulink>.</para>
+	</section>
 
 </section>
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