HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2007 Release Notes

• Internet Services:
— BIND 9.2.0: New options added. New commands added in rndc remote name daemon
control program. Supports IXFR and all DNS security features.
— Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) v6: New features include new message
types, multiple IP address request, configuration parameters from a DHCPv6 server,
and reconfiguration messages.
— The gated Routing Daemon: ospfagt available to obtain OSPF routing information
from the gated product.
— The inetd Daemon: New option added for use by inetd to identify a UDP service as
broken or in-loop. New variable added to enable or disable inetd during system
startup.
— IPv6 Support for Internet Service Products: BIND 9.2, DHCPv6, inetd, name and
address resolution resolver routines, R-commands, telnet, WU-FTPD 2.6.1, and Secure
Internet Services are IPv6 enabled.
— Logging User Accounting Information: telnetd, remshd, rexecd, and ftpd now
use new scalable utmps/wtmps/btmps interfaces to log user accounting information.
— The named-xfer Ancillary Program: Obsolete; replaced by the dig utility.
— The rbootd remote boot server for RMP clients: Obsolete; clients using the RMP protocol
no longer supported. You must move from RMP to BOOTP.
— The rexecd utility: New option added. Now uses utmps/wtmps/btmps interfaces to
log user accounting information.
— The rwhod sever: Updated to use utmps interfaces to read user accounting information.
— Secure Internet Services: New options added. IPv6 enabled for R-commands. Kerberos
supported in an IPv6 environment for ftp, R-commands, and telnet.
— Sendmail 8.11.1: New options added.
— SLP 0.8: New with HP-UX 11i v2. Includes dynamic service tracking, ease of
administration, and ease of development.
— TCP Wrappers 7.6: Includes features such as monitoring incoming requests for Internet
Services, controlling access to services spawned by inetd, and enforcing access control
in stand-alone daemon programs, among others.
— WU-FTPD 2.6.1: The ftp daemon audits all login activities irrespective of success/failure
login. Logs bad login attempts in /var/adm/btmps file. New options added.
• IPv6 Support: IPv6 support by Transport, Internet Services, DCE, DLPI, FDDI, SAM-NNC,
libc, HP-UX commands, Desktop (CDE), X11R6-based applications, C2 Audit, EMS, Online
Diagnostics, SNMP, NetTL, IPSec, Kerberos Client, ServiceGuard, GlancePlus Pak, HP-UX
Secure Shell, HP-UX Web Server Suite, and the Runtime Environment (RTE) for the Java. 2
platform.
• IPv6 Network Transport Software: Features include IPv4/IPv6 dual stock support; enablement
of IPv4/IPv6 host and router connections over existing IPv4 network; Ethernet and FDDI
links; IPv6 stateless address auto configuration; IPv6 Neighbor Discovery; network
configuration and troubleshooting utilities; name service switch, and more.
• IPv6 Support by Common Desktop Environment (CDE): CDE 2.1 supports IPv6, in addition
to IPv4.
• IPv6 Support by HP Openview Emanate Agent: Relevant MIB support with the IPv6 subagent,
ipv6agt. RFCs supported as part of the IPv6 stack.
• IPv6 Support by HP-UX libc and HP-UX Commands: While providing support for IPv6,
new solution addresses previous performance and feature scalability problems. New daemon
and library introduced to manage user accounting. Various commands modified and options
added to support IPv6. Solution speeds response time for users to log in to large server
systems which support a large number of users/login sessions.
• Kernel Logging: Deprecated. Will not be supported post-HP-UX 11i v2.
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