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The BIND Administrative Reference Manual is the definitive command reference, but there are many other useful technical resources, including our knowledgebase , and the active user mailing list .

Latest Development version BIND ARM , Current Stable version BIND ARM

The ISC ‘KB’ includes both key policies and plans, such as the Software Support Plan as well as detailed technical articles, such as the BIND 9 Signifcant Features Matrix showing which features have recently been added or removed.

ISC technical staff frequently give talks at industry meetings. These can be an interesting source for random news and updates BIND.

We try post significant oustanding unfixed issues in our BIND wiki here: Known issues in BIND 9.18 , Known issues in BIND 9.20 ,

The BIND team do most of their development work in a publicly-accessible, self-hosted GitLab instance . Anyone may read the issues and code there: to make a or add an issue, you must create a (free) account. Please note that we have an aggressive anti-abuse policy, out of necessity.

The NIST Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment Guide was re-written in 2025. There is some good, solid DNS advice here.

The DNS-OARC working group on Best Current Practices has created this helpful table of existing BCP documents for DNS.

ISC has a well-developed system for handling software vulnerabilities responsibly. Here are some resources to help you secure your deployment.

This policy describes our committment and timeline for handling disclosures. This document explains how we score vulnerabilities, using the CVSS scoring system, to determine their severity.

View the BIND 9 Software Vulnerability Matrix for a listing of all the vulnerabilities that apply to current (not EOL) versions of BIND, or see the table which shows vulnerabilities by software version. Each vulnerability number is linked to the original Advisory document

You might wish to Verify the Integrity of ISC Downloads using PGP / GPG . A few years ago we changed our ISC software signing process .