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BIND, the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon, version 9 is a major rewrite
of nearly all aspects of the underlying BIND architecture.  Some
of the important features of BIND-9 are:

	- DNS Security
	- IP version 6
	- DNS Protocol Enhancements
	- Views
	- Multiprocessor Support
	- Improved Portability Architecture
	- Full NSEC3 support
	- Automatic zone re-signing
	- New update-policy methods tcp-self and 6to4-self

This package contains the BIND 9.11 release.

	- Catalog Zones, a new method for provisioning servers
	- "dnstap", a fast and flexible method of capturing and logging
	  DNS traffic.
	- "dyndb", a new API for loading zone data from an external database
	- dnssec-keymgr, a new key mainenance utility
	- mdig, an alternate version of dig utility
	- And more...