What's New in the Fourth version?
Besides updating the tutorial to cover the most recent versions of BIND, we've added a fair amount of new material to the fourth version:
- More extensive coverage of dynamic update and NOTIFY, including signed dynamic updates and BIND 9's new update-policy mechanism, in "Advanced Features"
- Incremental zone transfer, also in "Advanced Features"
- Forward zones, which support conditional forwarding, in "Advanced Features"
- IPv6 forward and reverse mapping using the new A6 and DNAME records, as well as bitstring labels, at the end of "Advanced Features"
- Transaction signatures, also known as TSIG, a new mechanism for authenticating transactions, in "Security"
- An expanded section on securing name servers, in "Security"
- An expanded section on dealing with Internet firewalls, in "Security"
- Coverage of the DNS Security Extensions, or DNSSEC, a new mechanism for digitally signing zone data, also in "Security"
- A section on accommodating Windows clients, servers, and Domain Controllers with BIND, in "Miscellaneous"