This directory contains contributed scripts, tools, libraries, and other useful additions to BIND 9. It includes: - scripts/ Assorted useful scripts, including 'nanny' which monitors named and restarts it in the event of a crash, 'zone-edit' which enables editing of a dynamic zone, and others - queryperf/ A DNS query performance testing tool - perftcpdns/ A performance testing tool for DNS over TCP - dane/ mkdane.sh generates TLSA records for use with DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) - dlz/modules Dynamically linkable DLZ modules that can be configured into named at runtime, enabling access to external data sources including LDAP, MySQL, Berkeley DB, perl scripts, etc - dlz/drivers Old-style DLZ drivers that can be linked into named at compile time. (These are no longer actively maintained and are expected to be deprecated eventually.) - sdb/ SDB drivers: another mechanism for accessing external data sources - idn/ Contains source for 'idnkit', which provides support for Internationalized Domain Name processing. - nslint-3.0a2 A lint-like tool for checking DNS files - query-loc-0.4.0 A tool for retrieving location information stored in the DNS - zkt-1.1.2 DNSSEC Zone Key Tools, an alternate method for managing keys and signatures