Editing BIND (section)

==Database support==
While earlier versions of BIND offered no mechanism to store and retrieve [[Zone file|zone data]] in anything other than flat text files, in 2007 BIND 9.4<ref>{{cite web
| url=https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-announce/2007-February/000210.html
| title=BIND 9.4.0 is now available.
| first=Mark |last=Andrews
| date=2007-02-24
| access-date=2015-09-17}}</ref> [http://bind-dlz.sourceforge.net/ DLZ] provided a compile-time option for zone storage in a variety of database formats including [[LDAP]], [[Berkeley DB]], [[PostgreSQL]], [[MySQL]], and [[ODBC]].

BIND 10 planned to make the data store modular, so that a variety of databases may be connected.<ref name="bind10-design">{{cite web
| url=https://kea.isc.org/wiki/DesignOverview
| title=Kea: Design overview
| publisher=ISC
| access-date=2015-09-17
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304120623/https://kea.isc.org/wiki/DesignOverview
| archive-date=4 March 2016
}}</ref>
In 2016 ISC added support for the 'dyndb' interface, contributed by RedHat, with BIND version 9.11.0.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01420|title = Dyndb compared to DLZ}}</ref>