documentation updates for snapshot4

git-svn-id: svn://svn.powerdns.com/pdns/trunk/pdns@1140 d19b8d6e-7fed-0310-83ef-9ca221ded41b

diff --git a/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml b/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml
index 006da4cc6449f533e5be6a2f0d174bea809bdd55..9e72a9ef13b4b0f26e9ad1345db99b60f887aa85 100644 (file)
--- a/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml
+++ b/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml
@@ -101,7 +101,10 @@
          and not so rare issues were addressed. Most importantly, multi-part TXT records now work as expected - the only significant bug found in 15 months.
        </para>
        <para>
-         Additionally, newer releases of the G++ compiler required some fixes.
+          Perhaps important, this version can properly benefit from all IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in use at the root-servers as of early February 2008.
+       </para>
+       <para>
+         Additionally, newer releases of the G++ compiler required some fixes (see t173).
        </para>
        <para>
          Security related issues:
@@ -140,6 +143,19 @@
              Applied fix for t110 ('PowerDNS should change directory to '/' in chroot), implemented in c944.
            </para>
          </listitem>
+         <listitem>
+           <para>
+           Some routing conditions could cause UDP connected sockets to generate an error which PowerDNS did not deal with properly, leading
+           to a leaked file descriptor. As these run out over time, the recursor could crash. This would also happen for IPv6 queries
+           on a host with no IPv6 connectivity. Thanks to Kai of xs4all and Wichert Akkerman for
+           reporting this issue. Fix in c1133. 
+           </para>
+         </listitem>
+         <listitem>
+           <para>
+           Empty unknown record types can now be stored without generating a scary error (c1129)
+           </para>
+         </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Applied fix for t111, t112 and t153 - large (multipart) TXT records are now retrieved 
@@ -161,7 +177,8 @@
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
-             Various fixes for modern G++ versions, most spotted by Marcus Rueckert (commits C964, C965, C1028, C1052)
+             Various fixes for modern G++ versions, most spotted by Marcus Rueckert (commits C964, C965, C1028, C1052), and
+             Ruben Kerkhoff (c1136, closing t175).
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
@@ -238,6 +255,13 @@
              Ruben Kerkhof fixed up weird permission bits as well as our SGML documentation code in c936 and c937.
            </para>
          </listitem>
+         <listitem>
+           <para>
+           Now perform EDNS0 root refreshing queries, so as to benefit from all returned addresses. Relevant since early February 2008 when the root-servers
+           started to respond with IPv6 addresses, which made the default non-EDNS0 maximum packet length reply no longer contain all records. Implemented in c1130.
+           Thanks to dns-operations AT mail.oarc.isc.org for quick suggestions on how to deal with this change.
+           </para>
+         </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              <command>rec_control</command> now has a timeout in case the Recursor does not respond. Implemented in c945.