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)
- 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 (These are no longer actively maintained and are expected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 (These are no longer actively maintained and are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/
DNS server performance testing tools, like 'queryperf' but more
advanced: 'dnsperf' focuses on authoritative server performance
and 'resperf' on recursive server performance.
- nslint-3.0a2
A lint-like tool for checking DNS files
- query-loc-0.4.0
A tool for retrieving location information stored in the DNS
- zkt-1.1.2
DNSSEC Zone Key Tools, an alternate method for managing keys
and signatures
