nsd users - Nov 2003 - ANNOUNCEMENT: NSD 1.4.0 alpha 1

This release is an alpha release.  We are currently not planning to have a 
1.4.0 stable release as we want to prioritize implementing DNSSEC first. 
The next stable release will then be NSD 2.0.0 with DNSSEC support.

This release has some major changes: the database format is much more 
compact, responses are generated on-the-fly instead of being precompiled in 
the database, and the new FLEX/YACC based compiler is now the only 
supported compiler (and simply called zonec).

Please read the README document for configuration and installation
instructions.

You can download NSD from http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/nsd/

1.4.0-alpha1
============FEATURES:
         - New database format that is much more compact and portable
           across architectures.
         - The new zone compiler is now the default and the old zone
           compiler has been removed.
         - Name compression is done dynamically, removing one other
           difference with BIND in the responses generated (the full
           query name is now used for compression).
         - CNAME target records are now generated from wildcard
           records if necessary.

REGRESSIONS:
         - mmap(2) isn't currently supported.
         - Not all RR types are supported by zonec (such as LOC).

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:36:56PM +0100,
 Erik Rozendaal <erik at NLnetLabs.nl> wrote 
 a message of 36 lines which said:
> responses are generated on-the-fly instead of being precompiled in 
> the database,
What are the consequences on performance? I thought that one reason
why nsd was so much faster (and does not load the CPU as much as BIND)
is the precompiled responses.
>         - Name compression is done dynamically, removing one other
>           difference with BIND in the responses generated (the full
>           query name is now used for compression).
If we start generating responses on-the-fly, what about round-robin?

[Quoting Alexis Yushin, on Nov  7, 11:31, in "Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: NS
..."]
> I'm even thinking about implementing DNSSEC for 1.2.2 myself, but
lacking
> cooperatiion from the nlnetlabs and test platform I guess it is not very
> realistic plan.
Alexis,

NLnet Labs has been, and still is, very much in favor of cooperation
with you and any other person who wants to contributes ideas and/or
code to NSD.  You also you still have full access to our TestLab.

So I don't understand what you said above,
-- ted