1This directory contains contributed scripts, tools, libraries, 2and other useful additions to BIND 9. It includes: 3 4 - scripts/ 5 6 Assorted useful scripts, including 'nanny' which monitors 7 named and restarts it in the event of a crash, 'zone-edit' 8 which enables editing of a dynamic zone, and others 9 10 - queryperf/ 11 12 A DNS query performance testing tool 13 14 - perftcpdns/ 15 16 A performance testing tool for DNS over TCP 17 18 - dane/ 19 20 mkdane.sh generates TLSA records for use with DNS-based 21 Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) 22 23 - dlz/modules 24 25 Dynamically linkable DLZ modules that can be configured into 26 named at runtime, enabling access to external data sources including 27 LDAP, MySQL, Berkeley DB, perl scripts, etc 28 29 - dlz/drivers 30 31 Old-style DLZ drivers that can be linked into named at compile 32 time. (These are no longer actively maintained and are expected 33 to be deprecated eventually.) 34 35 - sdb/ 36 37 SDB drivers: another mechanism for accessing external data 38 sources 39 40 - idn/ 41 42 Contains source for 'idnkit', which provides support for 43 Internationalized Domain Name processing. 44 45 - nslint-3.0a2 46 47 A lint-like tool for checking DNS files 48 49 - query-loc-0.4.0 50 51 A tool for retrieving location information stored in the DNS 52 53 - zkt-1.1.2 54 55 DNSSEC Zone Key Tools, an alternate method for managing keys 56 and signatures 57 58