NIOS 6.0.0 Feature overview
- CSV import
- NXDOMAIN response replacement
- Blacklisting
- DHCP Lease Scavenging
- BGP Anycast Support
- bloxTools
- Synchronization with MS Windows Servers improvement

CSV import
Now you can actually import CSV files that are not just DHCP-related. And it’s included in the actual product (it’s not a Java Import Wizard). With the new import feature, you can import DNS, DHCP and IPAM data!

NXDOMAIN response replacement
You now have the ability to replace the NXDOMAIN response, with a “synthesized” DNS response with a pre-defined IP-address. You can also create rules specifying how a member should respond to a query for an A-record for a certain domain. In other words, it’s not just limited to NXDOMAIN.

Blacklisting
You can blacklist domain names.

DHCP Lease Scavenging
Automated scavenging of leases older than a certain age.

BGP Anycast Support
You can now use BGP or OSPF (or both) as the anycast protocol for DNS advertising.

bloxTools
bloxTools can no longer be run on a Grid Master, Grid Master Candidate or a vNIOS appliance on Riverbed or VMware. It must run on a Grid Member.

Synchronization with MS Windows Servers
With version 6.0.0 you can now create a user account that does not require Admin group membership rights, to use with Infoblox.

Read more details about how the DNS workaround failed in Mac OS X 10.5 or how the DNS Workaround Failed in Mac OS X 10.4