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Regarding patches for BIND 9 DNS Administration Reference Book

The BIND 9 DNS Administration Reference Book is based on Internet Systems Consortium's BIND 9 documentation including the Administrator Reference Manual (Bv9ARM). In addition to hundreds of improvements (most integrated upstream) and major reorganization of the original documentation, new content, examples, detailed indexing and more cross-referencing were added. This book is an excellent resource which provides a convenient way to find BIND 9 documentation and to learn DNS basics.

The following is a list of BIND issue numbers for some of our improvements. (See the CVS commit messages.)

  1. 16028
  2. 16150
  3. 16826
  4. 16827
  5. 16855
  6. 16859
  7. 16863
  8. 16869
  9. 16870
  10. 16916
  11. 16920
  12. 16939
  13. 16942
  14. 17113
Also some other fixes committed weren't associated with a ID above.

The following is a "diffstat" output from many patches provided. This is for 14 different documentation source files. 

 bin/check/named-checkconf.docbook  |    3 	2 +	1 -	0 !
 bin/check/named-checkconf.docbook  |    3 	3 +	0 -	0 !
 bin/check/named-checkzone.docbook  |    6 	3 +	3 -	0 !
 bin/check/named-checkzone.docbook  |    2 	1 +	1 -	0 !
 bin/check/named-checkzone.docbook  |    3 	3 +	0 -	0 !
 bin/check/named-checkzone.html     |    2 	1 +	1 -	0 !
 bin/dig/dig.docbook                |   22 	11 +	11 -	0 !
 bin/dig/dig.docbook                |    2 	1 +	1 -	0 !
 bin/dig/dig.docbook                |    4 	2 +	2 -	0 !
 bin/dig/dig.docbook                |    8 	4 +	4 -	0 !
 bin/dig/dig.html                   |    4 	2 +	2 -	0 !
 bin/dig/host.docbook               |    6 	3 +	3 -	0 !
 bin/dig/host.docbook               |    2 	1 +	1 -	0 !
 bin/dig/host.docbook               |    6 	3 +	3 -	0 !
 bin/dig/nslookup.docbook           |    2 	2 +	0 -	0 !
 bin/dig/nslookup.docbook           |    2 	1 +	1 -	0 !
 bin/dnssec/dnssec-keygen.docbook   |   11 	6 +	5 -	0 !
 bin/dnssec/dnssec-signzone.docbook |   11 	7 +	4 -	0 !
 bin/named/lwresd.docbook           |    6 	3 +	3 -	0 !
 bin/named/lwresd.docbook           |   55 	55 +	0 -	0 !
 bin/named/named.conf.docbook       |    4 	1 +	3 -	0 !
 bin/named/named.conf.docbook       |    3 	3 +	0 -	0 !
 bin/named/named.docbook            |   10 	5 +	5 -	0 !
 bin/named/named.docbook            |    8 	8 +	0 -	0 !
 bin/nsupdate/nsupdate.docbook      |   18 	9 +	9 -	0 !
 bin/nsupdate/nsupdate.docbook      |   26 	13 +	13 -	0 !
 bin/rndc/rndc.conf.docbook         |    4 	2 +	2 -	0 !
 bin/rndc/rndc.conf.docbook         |    2 	1 +	1 -	0 !
 bin/rndc/rndc.docbook              |    2 	1 +	1 -	0 !
 bin/rndc/rndc.docbook              |   10 	5 +	5 -	0 !
 bin/rndc/rndc.docbook              |    9 	4 +	5 -	0 !
 doc/arm/Bv9ARM-book.xml            |   60 	30 +	30 -	0 !
 doc/arm/Bv9ARM-book.xml            |  234 	117 +	117 -	0 !
 doc/arm/Bv9ARM-book.xml            |   18 	9 +	9 -	0 !
 doc/arm/Bv9ARM-book.xml            |   10 	5 +	5 -	0 !
 doc/arm/Bv9ARM-book.xml            |   88 	48 +	40 -	0 !
 doc/arm/Bv9ARM-book.xml            |   38 	38 +	0 -	0 !
 doc/arm/Bv9ARM-book.xml            |   52 	41 +	11 -	0 !
 doc/arm/Bv9ARM-book.xml            |   17 	9 +	8 -	0 !
 doc/arm/Bv9ARM-book.xml            |   17 	15 +	2 -	0 !
 doc/arm/Bv9ARM-book.xml            |  255 	138 +	117 -	0 !
 41 files changed, 616 insertions(+), 429 deletions(-)

Many other changes that weren't submitted and/or committed upstream include re-ordering of content, indexing, a lot more cross-referencing, more examples, new content on security and installations and stats, documentation on when features were added, differences between versions, and a lot more.

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