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The Knot DNS Resolver is a caching full resolver implementation written in C
and LuaJIT, including both a resolver library and a daemon. Modular
architecture of the library keeps the core tiny and efficient, and provides
a state-machine like API for extensions.
The package is pre-configured as local caching resolver.
To start using it, just start the local DNS socket:
BEWARE:
Because of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1366968
you need to switch your system to SELinux permissive mode.
Update Information:
Knot Resolver 1.2.3 (2017-02-23) ================================ Bugfixes -------- - Disable storing GLUE records into the cache even in the (non- default) QUERY_PERMISSIVE mode - iterate: skip answer RRs that don't match the query - layer/iterate: some additional processing for referrals - lib/resolve: zonecut fetching error was fixed Knot Resolver 1.2.2 (2017-02-10) ================================ Bugfixes: --------- - Fix -k argument processing to avoid out-of-bounds memory accesses - lib/resolve: fix zonecut fetching for explicit DS queries - hints: more NULL checks - Fix TA bootstrapping for multiple TAs in the IANA XML file Testing: -------- - Update tests to run tests with and without QNAME minimization Knot Resolver 1.2.1 (2017-02-01) ==================================== Security: --------- - Under certain conditions, a cached negative answer from a CD query would be reused to construct response for non-CD queries, resulting in Insecure status instead of Bogus....
Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2017-038e821698 2017-03-09 08:01:59.598458
Name : knot-resolver Product : Fedora 25 Version : 1.2.3 Release : 1.fc25 URL : https://www.knot-resolver.cz/ Summary : Caching full DNS Resolver Description : The Knot DNS Resolver is a caching full resolver implementation written in C and LuaJIT, including both a resolver library and a daemon. Modular architecture of the library keeps the core tiny and efficient, and provides a state-machine like API for extensions.
The package is pre-configured as local caching resolver. To start using it, just start the local DNS socket:
BEWARE: Because of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1366968 you need to switch your system to SELinux permissive mode.
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade knot-resolver' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html
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