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1*00b67f09SDavid van MoolenbroekThis directory contains contributed scripts, tools, libraries,
2*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroekand other useful additions to BIND 9. It includes:
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4*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek    - scripts/
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6*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek      Assorted useful scripts, including 'nanny' which monitors
7*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek      named and restarts it in the event of a crash, 'zone-edit'
8*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek      which enables editing of a dynamic zone, and others
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10*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek    - queryperf/
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12*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek      A DNS query performance testing tool
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14*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek    - perftcpdns/
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16*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek      A performance testing tool for DNS over TCP
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18*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek    - dane/
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20*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek      mkdane.sh generates TLSA records for use with DNS-based
21*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek      Authentication of Named Entities (DANE)
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23*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek    - dlz/modules
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25*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek      Dynamically linkable DLZ modules that can be configured into
26*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek      named at runtime, enabling access to external data sources including
27*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek      LDAP, MySQL, Berkeley DB, perl scripts, etc
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29*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek    - dlz/drivers
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31*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek      Old-style DLZ drivers that can be linked into named at compile
32*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek      time.  (These are no longer actively maintained and are expected
33*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek      to be deprecated eventually.)
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35*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek    - sdb/
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37*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek      SDB drivers: another mechanism for accessing external data
38*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek      sources
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40*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek    - idn/
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42*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek      Contains source for 'idnkit', which provides support for
43*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek      Internationalized Domain Name processing.
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45*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek    - nslint-3.0a2
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47*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek      A lint-like tool for checking DNS files
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49*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek    - query-loc-0.4.0
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51*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek      A tool for retrieving location information stored in the DNS
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53*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek    - zkt-1.1.2
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55*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek      DNSSEC Zone Key Tools, an alternate method for managing keys
56*00b67f09SDavid van Moolenbroek      and signatures
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