with newbie, you can do

• IP version 6 message exchange / name service(with Kame -- no other platform checked)
• Faith-mode (map IPv4 address into IPv6 address)
• Offline-mode (behavior during off-line -- for nomads)
• IP version 4 message exchange ... of course :)
• Dynamic UPDATE with RFC2136
• Prototype of authorized update(similar to TSIG, but no compatibilty)
• Primary master of zone transfer
• Forwarder (still buggy)
• Control of active name server.

with newbie, you can NOT do

• Slave of zone transfer(Secondary)
• Several resource types are unsupported yet.
• Incremental zone transfer (RFC1995)
• NOTIFY (RFC1996)

Tested platforms

• FreeBSD
  • 2.2.2 with Hydrangea(newest version is known as Kame)
  • 2.2.5-PAO, 2.2.5-PAO with Hydrangea(newest version is known as Kame)
  • 2.2.6-RELEASE with Kame
  • 3.0-current(compile only: tested 29Apr1998)
• Linux
  • ReaHat 4.2 with kernel 2.0.27

I need report/patch from other platform users :)