DNS NSD 4 migration and features By Wouter Wijngaards This post describes migration to NSD4 and the new features of NSD4. An overview of the NSD 4 project is here [http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/blog/2012/12/18/nsd-4-0-beta-announcement/]. Migration The old NSD3 config file can be used without changes for NSD4.
DNS DNS Response Rate Limiting as implemented in NSD By Wouter Wijngaards (Note 10 Oct 2012: Rate limiting is worked on at this time, and is being tested, it is not available in NSD production code yet). (Update 10 Dec 2012 : changed title to indicate it is based on Vixie and Schryver’s work) Rate Limits Rate limiting is
DNS Howto: Add new RRtypes to NSD People like to put stuff in the DNS. While we could put everything in a TXT record, in general it is better to define a new record type (RRtype). The latest addition is the TLSA record, to support the DANE protocol. The RRtype was added to NSD just one day after the RFC was published.
DNS NSD4 Features By Wouter Wijngaards NSD 4 is under development. The plan is to improve NSD 3 with a number of new features. The main goals are: * More dynamic configuration support * High number of zones supported * It stays the lean and mean, typical secondary authoritative DNS server that you know it for.
