.. Copyright (C) Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC") .. .. SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0 .. .. This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public .. License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this .. file, you can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. .. .. See the COPYRIGHT file distributed with this work for additional .. information regarding copyright ownership. Notes for BIND 9.18.2 --------------------- New Features ~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Add a new configuration option :any:`reuseport` to disable load balancing on sockets in situations where processing of Response Policy Zones (RPZ), Catalog Zones, or large zone transfers can cause service disruptions. See the BIND 9 ARM for more detail. :gl:`#3249` Bug Fixes ~~~~~~~~~ - Previously, zone maintenance DNS queries retried forever if the destination server was unreachable. These queries included outgoing NOTIFY messages, refresh SOA queries, parental DS checks, and stub zone NS queries. For example, if a zone had any nameservers with IPv6 addresses and a secondary server without IPv6 connectivity, that server would keep trying to send a growing amount of NOTIFY traffic over IPv6. This futile traffic was not logged. This excessive retry behavior has been fixed. :gl:`#3242` - A number of crashes and hangs which could be triggered in :iscman:`dig` were identified and addressed. :gl:`#3020` :gl:`#3128` :gl:`#3145` :gl:`#3184` :gl:`#3205` :gl:`#3244` :gl:`#3248` - Invalid :any:`dnssec-policy` definitions, where the defined keys did not cover both KSK and ZSK roles for a given algorithm, were being accepted. These are now checked, and the :any:`dnssec-policy` is rejected if both roles are not present for all algorithms in use. :gl:`#3142` - Handling of TCP write timeouts has been improved to track the timeout for each TCP write separately, leading to a faster connection teardown in case the other party is not reading the data. :gl:`#3200` Known Issues ~~~~~~~~~~~~ - There are no new known issues with this release. See :ref:`above ` for a list of all known issues affecting this BIND 9 branch.