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+This directory contains contributed scripts, tools, libraries, and other
+useful accessories to BIND 9.  Contrib software is not supported by ISC,
+but reported bugs will be fixed as time permits.
+
+    - scripts/
+
+      Assorted useful scripts, including 'nanny' which monitors 
+      named and restarts it in the event of a crash, 'zone-edit'
+      which enables editing of a dynamic zone, and others
+
+    - queryperf/
+
+      A DNS query performance testing tool
+
+    - perftcpdns/
+
+      A performance testing tool for DNS over TCP
+
+    - dane/
+
+      mkdane.sh generates TLSA records for use with DNS-based
+      Authentication of Named Entities (DANE)
+
+    - dnspriv/
+
+      Sample configuration for setting up a DNS-over-TLS server
+      using BIND with Nginx as a TLS proxy
+
+    - dlz/modules
+
+      Dynamically linkable DLZ modules that can be configured into
+      named at runtime, enabling access to external data sources including
+      LDAP, MySQL, Berkeley DB, perl scripts, etc
+
+    - dlz/drivers
+
+      Old-style DLZ drivers that can be linked into named at compile
+      time.  (These are no longer actively maintained and are expected
+      to be deprecated eventually.)
+
+    - sdb/
+
+      SDB drivers: another mechanism for accessing external data
+      sources. (These are no longer actively maintained and are
+      expected to be deprecated eventually.)
+
+    - idn/
+
+      Contains source for 'idnkit', which provides support for
+      Internationalized Domain Name processing.
+
+    - dnsperf-2.1.0.0-1/
+    - dnsperf-patches/
+
+      DNS server performance testing tools, like 'queryperf' but more
+      advanced: 'dnsperf' focuses on authoritative server performance
+      and 'resperf' on recursive server performance.  The patch that
+      adds support for EDNS Client Subnet can be found in dnsperf-patches
+      directory.
+
+Formerly, there was more software included in this directory, but we
+have removed it in favour of using canonical upstream locations.  You
+can find the links to the nslint, query-loc and zkt, and other software
+we find useful but do not necessarily support, at:
+
+      https://www.isc.org/community/tools/