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Fedora 21 FEDORA-2015-5813 Moderate: Knot DNS Server Update

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Calendar Grey April 18, 2015
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Explore the latest enhancements for the BIND DNS server in Fedora 21, boosting efficiency and resolving vulnerabilities.
new upstream release

Summary

Knot DNS is a high-performance authoritative DNS server implementation.

Update Information:

new upstream release

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security advisory Fedora moderate severity security patch performance fix DNS server knot

Change Log

* Wed Apr 8 2015 Jan Vcelak 1.6.3-1 - new upstream release: + fix: performance drop for NSEC-signed zones + fix: proper handling of TCP short-writes + fix: possible out-of-bound reads in zone parser and packet parser + feature: CDS and CDNSKEY support in zone parser + improvement: add defaults for TCP config options into documentation + improvement: detailed error message if zone reload fails * Thu Feb 19 2015 Jan Vcelak 1.6.2-1 - new upstream release: + new config option 'max-tcp-clients' + fix possible resource leak when terminating inactive TCP clients * Tue Jan 20 2015 Jan Vcelak 1.6.1-3 - service file changes: + remove dependency on network.target + remove bounding capabilities (breaks reload) * Sat Dec 13 2014 Jan Vcelak 1.6.1-2 - new upstream release: + DNSSEC: support for Single-Type Signing Scheme + fix: journal file growing over configured limit - service file changes: + run as 'knot' user and group + set security bounding capabilities + change Type to 'notify' * Thu Oct 30 2014 Jan Vcelak 1.6.0-2 - default config: run server as unprivileged user - service file: remove useless startup dependencies - service file: add bounding capabilities

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-5813 2015-04-09 04:56:39
Name : knot Product : Fedora 21 Version : 1.6.3 Release : 1.fc21 URL : https://www.knot-dns.cz/ Summary : An authoritative DNS daemon Description : Knot DNS is a high-performance authoritative DNS server implementation.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update knot' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: knot
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 1.6.3
Release: 1.fc21
URL: https://www.knot-dns.cz/
Summary: An authoritative DNS daemon

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security advisory Fedora moderate severity security patch performance fix DNS server knot

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