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ISC BIND 10 Authoritative Server Released
July 2010 by Marc Jacob
Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) announces the first developmental release of BIND 10. This exciting next generation of BIND, the most widely deployed DNS server software on the Internet, is not intended to replace BIND 9 — yet. This current release of BIND 10 marks the achievement of the first year milestone for the project, an authoritative-only DNS server. As part of its collaborative mission, ISC encourages all DNS administrators and developers to download and thoroughly test BIND 10. The more insight ISC gains into this release, the better the beta release of BIND 10.
Over 1,700 copies of the authoritative server have been downloaded since the first release of code in April of this year. All aspects of the BIND 10 software, along with blogs from the developers, are documented and available at http://bind10.isc.org/wiki/. New developmental releases are available for download approximately every six weeks at: http://www.isc.org/bind10.
In Year two of development, our primary objective is implementing a recursive, validating DNS resolver for BIND 10. Additionally, ISC plans work on performance tuning for the authoritative server, work on a DHCP implementation and initial development of the command language. ISC has posted its 5-year plan for BIND 10 at http://bind10.isc.org/wiki/FiveYearPlan.
Fundamental work on the new generation of BIND would not have been possible without generous support from ISC’s first year sponsors:
Patron Sponsors: CIRA, CNNIC, and JPRS
Sponsors: Afilias, AFNIC, DENIC, FCCN, IIS.se, Nominet, Registro.br, SIDN, and the CO.za registry.
