Public bug reported:
I currently love the 9.9.5 build that ubuntu has, but I've noticed there
is a really important feature that I could be using that comes built in
with 9.10.~, the EDNS client-subnet feature which for recursive
resolving will pass the client's IP/subnet to the resolver which then if
the resolver supports EDNS client-subnet feature, will be able to geo-
locate the clients request properly. This is very important seeing as
for instance if a user is located in China and wants to use DNS servers
in Japan that utilize google dns's resolver for example. Google will
think the DNS request is coming from the japan DNS server when in
actuality the request is being forwarded from the Japan server to the
client in china. If Google DNS looks up anycasting information for a
domain and gets back a Japan server, the client would be getting a worse
connection than if EDNS client-subnet passthrough was enabled in the
Japanese servers BIND, which would then result in Google returning back
a Chinese server closer to the client.
I'm not very good with compiling and am requesting someone update the
bind9 package kindly. :)
Currently in the meantime I've upgraded ontop of 9.9.5 with compiling 9.10.2
with the following configuration:
./configure --enable-sit --with-tuning=default --with-gssapi=/usr
--enable-fixed-rrset --with-pkcs11 --enable-seccomp --with-libtool --with-atf
--with-openssl=/usr --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc/bind --localstatedir=/var
--enable-threads --enable-largefile --enable-shared --enable-static
--with-gnu-ld --with-geoip=/usr --enable-ipv6 --enable-filter-aaaa
** Affects: bind9 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: upgrade-software-version
** Tags added: upgrade-software-version
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Title:
upgrade-software-version to BIND 9.10.2 Stable
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