HP-UX 11i Version 2 Release Notes (October 2003)

Internet and Networking
Internet Services
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• BIND 9.2.0 supports Incremental Zone Transfer (IXFR), a feature which enables the
slave server to transfer only the modified data to the master server instead of the
entire zone.
• BIND 9.2.0 supports all the DNS security features.
Impact
There are no impacts.
Compatibility
There are no compatibility issues.
Performance
There are no performance issues.
Documentation
Refer to the manual HP-UX IP Address and Client Management Administrator’s Guide
at http://www.docs.hp.com.
Obsolescence
The lightweight resolver daemon, lwresd, which is currently hard-linked to named, will
be deprecated in releases post 11.23.
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) v6
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is an extension of bootp that defines a
protocol for passing configuration information to hosts on a network. The current version
of DHCP shipped with HP-UX 11i v2 is based on 16th version of the Internet Draft on
DHCP for IPv6.
Summary of Change
The following new features are available in DHCPv6:
•New message types
• Multiple IP address request
• Configuration parameters from a DHCPv6 server
• Reconfiguration messages
Impact
There are no impacts.
Compatibility
There are no compatibility issues.