In message <19990327091202.I368@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
	on Sat, 27 Mar 1999 09:12:02 -0500,
	Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us> wrote:
> Hm. I need to look further, but I seem to remember something on the debian-
> legal mailing list that talked about some vaguely draconion licensing that
> comes with BIND 8.2, or, more precisely, some RSA (?) software that's
> included as a part of BIND 8.2...?
Yes.  From BIND 8.2's README, 

> BIND 8.2 Highlights
> 
> 	RFC 2308 (Negative Caching)
> 	RFC 2181 (DNS Clarifications)
> 	RFC 2065 (DNS Security)
> 	TSIG (Transaction SIGnatures)
> 	support for multiple virtual name servers
> 	NDC uses a "control channel" now (no more signals)
> 	"Split DNS" via zone type "forward".
> 
> 	Many bug fixes
> 	Documentation improvements
> 	Performance enhancements
Maybe, DNS Security uses codes licensed from RSA.

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Takahiro Kambe <taca@sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>

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