diff --git a/net-dns/bind/Manifest b/net-dns/bind/Manifest
index 7e07d1a..c9d02b8 100644
--- a/net-dns/bind/Manifest
+++ b/net-dns/bind/Manifest
@@ -1 +1 @@
-DIST bind-9.18.14.tar.xz 5481396 BLAKE2B fe0c2682f4d7e337029fc8b50657e483eea4f4ddd8787cfb192a93e9e6e3a516eab22ff397bef5fe18d5148d179cc18206536a7d33cf085012b57d13e44e76c6 SHA512 3dccda83ee4c9fa9fa74232a52d97122bd957e98152a12568a099bcfc2780367f17424702e7e0bff3a1ac427e9b71647eefeb9b4f8d462e27893a057e0a5b969
+DIST bind-9.18.16.tar.xz 5462456 BLAKE2B c19b7eaf03fa1498d69d51b3d0c16876dcb0099d697c247bf6ab484578df30487d86c4fdaeb5ea0939838782fa136b920744c8d45c3f8f42b6de761c76302d3d SHA512 90b510552e8fd0c358a627e32bd840eaafc946a2b3c5c4623d0e24aa167fb99aedd91ed19392a104ed5bfce341d9944bab02c680e19d312b59e6688f9546a1fd
diff --git a/net-dns/bind/bind-9.18.14.ebuild b/net-dns/bind/bind-9.18.16.ebuild
similarity index 95%
rename from net-dns/bind/bind-9.18.14.ebuild
rename to net-dns/bind/bind-9.18.16.ebuild
index ebe9f51..2a00cd3 100644
--- a/net-dns/bind/bind-9.18.14.ebuild
+++ b/net-dns/bind/bind-9.18.16.ebuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..11} )
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..12} )
 
 inherit python-any-r1 systemd tmpfiles
 
@@ -41,14 +41,21 @@ DEPEND="
 	lmdb? ( dev-db/lmdb )
 	xml? ( dev-libs/libxml2 )
 "
+
+#		optionally for testing dnssec
+#		dev-python/dnspython[dnssec]
 BDEPEND="
 	test? (
 		${PYTHON_DEPS}
 		dev-python/pytest
+		dev-python/requests
+		dev-python/requests-toolbelt
+		dev-python/dnspython
 		dev-perl/Net-DNS-SEC
 		dev-util/cmocka
 	)
 "
+
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
 	selinux? ( sec-policy/selinux-bind )
 	sys-process/psmisc
diff --git a/net-dns/bind/files/named.confd-r8 b/net-dns/bind/files/named.confd-r8
index 915c51d..b3f918c 100644
--- a/net-dns/bind/files/named.confd-r8
+++ b/net-dns/bind/files/named.confd-r8
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@ NAMED_CONF="/etc/bind/named.conf"
 # Leave this unchanged if you want bind to automatically detect the number
 #CPU="1"
 
-# Default pid file location
-# use named.conf to specify pid-file location
-
 # Scheduling priority: 19 is the lowest and -20 is the highest.
 # Default: 0
 #NAMED_NICELEVEL="0"