./net/bind95, Version 9 of the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon, implementation of DNS

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Branch: pkgsrc-2008Q3, Version: 9.5.0pl2, Package name: bind-9.5.0pl2, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

BIND, the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon, version 9 is a major rewrite
of nearly all aspects of the underlying BIND architecture. Some
of the important features of BIND-9 are:

- DNS Security
DNSSEC (signed zones)
TSIG (signed DNS requests)

- IP version 6
Answers DNS queries on IPv6 sockets
IPv6 resource records (A6, DNAME, etc.)
Bitstring Labels
Experimental IPv6 Resolver Library

- DNS Protocol Enhancements
IXFR, DDNS, Notify, EDNS0
Improved standards conformance

- Views
One server process can provide multiple "views" of the
DNS namespace to different clients.

- Multiprocessor Support
- Improved Portability Architecture


Required to run:
[textproc/libxml2]

Required to build:
[devel/libtool-base] [lang/perl5]

Master sites:

SHA1: e93a230e0e80e8e5975c83bf0ca0b1186f53fe52
RMD160: 2ac07f4d48f22cfeabd4d8089aaf955b81199dc0
Filesize: 6471.759 KB

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