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     12 Notes for BIND 9.20.24
     13 ----------------------
     14 
     15 Removed Features
     16 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     17 
     18 - Remove ineffective TCP fallback after repeated UDP timeouts.
     19 
     20   When an authoritative server failed to respond to two consecutive UDP
     21   queries, :iscman:`named` marked the next retry as TCP but still sent
     22   it over UDP, producing misleading dnstap records. The ineffective
     23   retry path has been removed; a corrected TCP fallback will be restored
     24   in future BIND 9 versions. :gl:`#5529`
     25 
     26 Feature Changes
     27 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     28 
     29 - Fall back to TCP on receipt of a UDP response with a mismatched query ID.
     30 
     31   BIND used to wait silently for the correct DNS message ID on a UDP
     32   fetch, even after receiving a response from the expected server with
     33   the wrong ID, leaving room for off-path spoofing attempts to keep
     34   guessing within that window.  The resolver now retries the fetch over
     35   TCP on the first such response, and a new ``MismatchTCP`` statistics
     36   counter tracks how often the fallback fires. :gl:`#5449`
     37 
     38 - Limit the number of glue records cached from a referral.
     39 
     40   When a delegation response contained many glue addresses per listed
     41   nameserver, all of them were cached without a per-nameserver bound,
     42   inflating resolver cache memory beyond what resolution could ever use.
     43   The cache now keeps at most 20 IPv4 and 20 IPv6 glue addresses per
     44   nameserver from a delegation. :gl:`#5701`
     45 
     46 - Fix a resolver stall on a CNAME response to a DS query.
     47 
     48   A validating resolver could stall for about twelve seconds and then
     49   return SERVFAIL when an authoritative server answered a DS query with
     50   a CNAME. Such responses are now rejected promptly, so the query fails
     51   quickly instead of hanging. :gl:`#5878`
     52 
     53 Bug Fixes
     54 ~~~~~~~~~
     55 
     56 - The resolver now removes other RRsets at the same name when caching a
     57   CNAME.
     58 
     59   When an RRset is in stale cache and the authoritative server changes
     60   the record type to CNAME, the resolver fails to refresh the stale
     61   cache. This has been fixed. :gl:`#5302`
     62 
     63 - Fix :any:`nxdomain-redirect` combined with :any:`dns64`.
     64 
     65   When a resolver was configured with both :any:`nxdomain-redirect` and
     66   :any:`dns64` in the same view, an AAAA query for a nonexistent name
     67   could abort :iscman:`named`. The combination failed whenever the
     68   redirect zone held A records but no AAAA records.  The server now
     69   serves the empty AAAA response from the redirect zone as-is, instead
     70   of attempting DNS64 synthesis on top of it. :gl:`#5789`
     71 
     72 - Fix DNS64 owner case after DNAME restart.
     73 
     74   When BIND 9 was configured to use DNS64 and encountered a DNAME
     75   redirect, it could end up using freed memory for the DNS response
     76   owner name. This caused the response to contain corrupted data. This
     77   fix ensures the correct owner name is used when constructing the
     78   synthesized response after a DNAME redirect. :gl:`#5934`
     79 
     80 - Clear REDIRECT flag when it isn't needed.
     81 
     82   When :any:`nxdomain-redirect` is in use, and a recursive query is used
     83   to get the redirected answer, a flag is set to distinguish it from a
     84   normal recursive response. Previously, that flag was left set
     85   afterward, which could trigger an assertion if a normal recursive
     86   query was sent later on behalf of the same client: for example,
     87   because the :any:`filter-aaaa` plugin was in use.  This has been
     88   fixed. :gl:`#5936`
     89 
     90 - Disable output escaping in ``bind9.xsl``.
     91 
     92   The statistics charts were not displaying on some browsers. This has
     93   been fixed. :gl:`#5990`
     94 
     95 - Fix crash on badly configured secondary signer.
     96 
     97   A badly configured secondary signer that was missing the ``file``
     98   entry caused the server to crash, rather than to reject the
     99   configuration. This has been fixed. :gl:`#5993`
    100 
    101 - Fix a possible crash on concurrent TKEY DELETE for the same key.
    102 
    103   On a server configured with :any:`tkey-gssapi-keytab`, an
    104   authenticated peer could crash :iscman:`named` by sending two TKEY
    105   DELETE requests for the same dynamic key in rapid succession.  This
    106   has been fixed. :gl:`#6001`
    107 
    108 - Reject RRSIG records covering meta-types.
    109 
    110   A recursive resolver could accept and cache an RRSIG record whose
    111   Type-Covered field named a meta-type (ANY, AXFR, IXFR, MAILA, MAILB),
    112   even though no real RRset of those types ever exists. Such records are
    113   now rejected by the DNS message parser. :gl:`#6002`
    114