MaraDNS Advocacy
I feel MaraDNS' greatest strength is that it is a small, minimal DNS server
that is easy to set up. It also is remarkably secure -- but that doesn't
mean its code is perfect. It just means that it is written in a way
that minimizes security bugs and that I take responsibilty for any
security bugs found.
MaraDNS in the press
MaraDNS has been praised in the press. Here are some examples of books,
articles, and papers which discuss MaraDNS:
- Mens, Jan-Piet (2008). Alternative DNS Servers: Choice and
Deployment, and Optional SQL/LDAP Back-Ends (Paperback).
UIT Cambridge Ltd. ISBN 0954452992.
This book devotes an entire chapter to MaraDNS
- Danchev, Dancho. How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and
MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
ZDNet.
This article affirms MaraDNS' excellent security design, pointing out
that MaraDNS was never vulnerable to the 2008 cache poisoning attacks.
- Schroder, Carla (2007). Linux Networking Cookbook (Paperback).
O'Reilly. ISBN 0596102488.
This book, on page 545, endorses MaraDNS,
stating that "My recommended combination is [...] MaraDNS for a public
authoritative server"
- João Antunes; Nuno Ferreira Neves; Paulo Veríssimo (2007), Finding Local
Resource Exhaustion Vulnerabilities, 18th IEEE International
Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Trollhättan, Sweden
http://homepages.di.fc.ul.pt/~nuno/pubs.html
This article discussion MaraDNS' denial-of-service resistance, pointing
out that "Figure 2, for instance, shows that the BIND server performs worse
than MaraDNS under the same attack, which means that the later is able to
sustain a larger number of attacks than the first"
- Rutherford, Matthew J. (2006), Adequate System-Level Testing of
Distributed Systems, Department of Computer Science, Boulder, CO,
http://mjrutherford.org/node/11
This PhD thesis mentions MaraDNS several times.
MaraDNS is used by a number of ISPs to serve thousands of domains. MaraDNS
is used by Boeing. MaraDNS is ready to be used by your business or
enterprise.
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