Release notes
What's new?
- v1.0.5
- Fixed bug with creating journal files.
- v1.0.4
- — Significantly sped up IXFR-in and reduced its memory requirements.
- — Parallel loading of zones to the server.
- — knotc checkzone (as a dry-run of zone compile).
- — knotc refresh for forcing Knot to update all zones from master servers.
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Known problems
- — Missing DDNS implementation
- — Slow start with many zones
Packages
- Debian - deb http://deb.knot-dns.cz/debian/ squeeze main
- Ubuntu - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cz.nic-labs/knot-dns
- Fedora RPM packages
Key features
- Open source
- High-performance, multi-threaded, and mostly lock-free implementation which scales well on SMPs
- Object-oriented design
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Support for all important DNS protocols
- Full and incremental zone transfers
- EDNS0 and DNSSEC extensions, including NSEC3
- NSID
Main goals
- Meet the needs of root and TLD name servers
- Very high response rate
- Good scalability on SMP systems
- Compliance with latest RFCs
- Non-stop operation
- Support for on-line addition and removal of zones
Supported platforms
- All major UNIX-like systems (Linux, BSD, Solaris, …)
- x86 and x64 architectures
Development
- Git repository: git://git.nic.cz/knot-dns.git
- Redmine - bug reporting
- E-mail conference: knot-dns-users@lists.nic.cz
- Bug reports can also go to: knot-dns@labs.nic.cz
Development team
- Ľuboš Slovák
- Marek Vavruša
- Jan Kadlec
- Ondřej Surý
- Ondřej Filip