maradns-2.0.01:

• MaraDNS build process modified to compile without any recursion; recursion is now supplied by Deadwood.

(2010.09.28)

maradns-1.4.05:

• Deadwood updated to the stable 3.0.01 release.
• MicroDNS now returns "not implemented" when given an EDNS packet
• FAQ updated.

(2010.09.25)

maradns-1.4.04:

• Bugfix: NAPTR records now work when ~ is used to separate records
• NAPTR records now documented
• Bugfix: ANY queries now correctly work with NS referrals
• Example IPv6 addresses now use RFC-4193 compliant IPs
• Website updated to point out that Deadwood is now feature complete and ready for beta-testing
• Some updates to the SQA regressions
• Deadwood updated to Deadwood 2.9.02
• Windows-only mkSecretTxt program added (*NIX users can just type in "dd if=/dev/urandom of=secret.txt bs=64 count=1"; this gives Windows the same ability).

(2010.07.31)

maradns-1.4.03:

• Patch fixing bug where an improperly terminated domain name in a csv2 zone file terminated MaraDNS.
• Documentation for reject_aaaa and reject_ptr (which have been around since 2003 but never documented until now) added.
• Other documentation updates

(2010.02.02)

maradns-1.3.07.10:

• Backport of patch fixing bug where an improperly terminated domain name in a csv2 zone file terminated MaraDNS.

(2010.02.02)

maradns-1.4.02:

• Documentation updated for 1.4 MaraDNS release.
• RPM spec file now builds RPM in CentOS (RHEL) 5.
• csv2_default_zonefile was accidently broken in MaraDNS 1.4.01; fixed.
• Updates to the SQA regressions; we now try some regressions that intermittently fail in CentOS 5 up to three times before giving up.

(2010.01.08)

maradns-1.4.01:

• The * character is no longer allowed in zone names.
• Deadwood updated to Deadwood 2.4.10
• Documentation update

(2009.12.21)

maradns-1.3.14:

• William Summers submitted a patch to fix OpenBSD compile issues.
• Deadwood 2 updated to Deadwood-2.04 (with the tools also in MaraDNS removed and the INSTALL document revised accordingly)
• Workaround for AFNIC (.fr) registration issues added
• GCC 4.3.2 compile-time warnings removed
• Milan Kupcevic added dns_port support to zoneserver
• stdint.h now used for fixed-sized integers; this should make MaraDNS easier to compile on unsupported platforms.

(2009.08.04)

maradns-1.3.13:

• private_ips test revamped to work in a stock CentOS 5.2 install
• New parameter added notthere_ip (Sponsored by XenoBank who offer internet privacy via a web browser that automagically uses the TOR network for web browsing)
• mqhash updated to also use Radio Gatun hash (in 32-bit mode).
• Currently unused borked_zone test added to SQA regressions

(2009.02.13)

maradns-1.3.12:

• Deadwood 2 updated to version Deadwood-2.02
• When sending a "host not here" reply, the RD and RA bits in the header were incorrectly set. Fixed. I would like to thank Dr. Volker Jaenisch for not only pointing out this bug, but supplying a patch to fix it.
• A compile-time warning when compiling with GCC 4.1 removed.
• mararc_n_verbose_query SQA regression updated to be more stable.

(2008.09.09)

maradns-1.3.07.09:

• When sending a "host not here" reply, the RD and RA bits in the header were incorrectly set. Fixed. I would like to thank Dr. Volker Jaenisch for not only pointing out this bug, but supplying a patch to fix it.
• A compile-time warning when compiling with GCC 4.1 removed.
• mararc_n_verbose_query SQA regression updated to be more stable.

Note: MaraDNS has always used random query IDs and source port randomization generated using a cryptographically strong random number generator and was never vulnerable to the "new" DNS spoofing attack.

(2008.08.04)

maradns-1.2.12.10:

• When sending a "host not here" reply, the RD and RA bits in the header were incorrectly set. Fixed. I would like to thank Dr. Volker Jaenisch for not only pointing out this bug, but supplying a patch to fix it.

Note: MaraDNS has always used random query IDs and source port randomization generated using a cryptographically strong random number generator and was never vulnerable to the "new" DNS spoofing attack.

(2008.08.04)

maradns-1.3.11:

• Bugfix: MaraDNS should now be able to compile on Mac OS X (Darwin) again.
• Some SQA test fixes: The private_ips test should now work in Fedora; an uninitialized variable in the askmara.bug test is now initialized. Thanks to Jean-Jacques Sarton for the bug reports and this fixes.
• Default maximum memory allowed to be allocated greatly increased in order to minimize the chances of the program dying because it can not allocate memory.
• Bugfix: RD value is now correctly echoed to client again
• Bugfix: RA bit has (generally) a reasonably sensible value, since some embedded devices actually check this bit.
• TCP socket is released more quickly, allowing fast restarts of the TCP zone server
• Other updates to the SQA regressions
• Improved cross-platform support, contributed by Jean-Jacques Sarton
• Some improvments to askmara.c and askmara-tcp.c
• Documentation typos kindly fixed by Boey Maun Suang
• Updates to documentation (DjbDNS is now FOSS software, man page cleanup, etc.)
• Warn user if there is an unprintable control character in their zone file

(2008.03.23)

maradns-1.3.07.08:

• Some SQA test fixes: The private_ips test should now work in Fedora; an uninitialized variable in the askmara.bug test is now initialized. Thanks to Jean-Jacques Sarton for the bug reports and this fixes.
• Default maximum memory allowed to be allocated greatly increased in order to minimize the chances of the program dying because it can not allocate memory.

(2007.12.25)

maradns-1.2.12.09:

• Backpot of ICANN root server list update
• Update to Daniel's maraconf.sh script
• Updates to the FAQ
• Bugfix: segfault when zoneserver was given bad IP in mararc file
• Bugfix: RD value is now correctly echoed to client again
• Bugfix: RA bit has (generally) a reasonably sensible value, since some embedded devices actually check this bit.
• Compile warning when compiling as authoritative-only server removed.

(2007.12.14)

maradns-1.3.10:

• deadwood-1 now has TCP, IPv6, Windows, and ip-based filtering support.
• Work in progress: Caching-only non-recusive DNS server in deadwood-2 directory. Not done, but the underlying caching has has been completed, includes the ability to delete elements not recently accessed, and can read and write the cache to a file.
• Fixed bug where MaraDNS did not correctly echo the rd bit the client sent us.
• The RA bit in the header is cleared when sending an authoritative answer, and set when sending a recursive answer. Thanks to Jan Hrdonka for the bug report.
• Allow there to be CSV2 zone files with nothing but SOA and NS records. Again, thanks to Jan Hrdonka for the bug report.
• One of the ICANN root servers has just changed, and is updated in the MaraDNS code.

(2007.11.26)

maradns-1.3.07.07:

• Fixed bug where MaraDNS did not correctly echo the rd bit the client sent us.
• The RA bit in the header is cleared when sending an authoritative answer, and set when sending a recursive answer. Thanks to Jan Hrdonka for the bug report.
• Allow there to be CSV2 zone files with nothing but SOA and NS records. Again, thanks to Jan Hrdonka for the bug report.
• One of the ICANN root servers has just changed, and is updated in the MaraDNS code.

(2007.11.26)

maradns-1.3.09:

• New DNS load balancer added in deadwood-1 directory. This is a work in progress that will (hopefully) become a full fledged thread-free recursive DNS server. Right now, it's only a basic UDP-only DNS load balancer.
• .rpm files are no longer part of MaraDNS releases. People who wish to have a .rpm can use the .spec file in build/ to make their own .rpm files.
• A script now automatically updates the .spec file
• Mr. Sarton has added some ipv6 support to askmara-tcp and askmara. Note that MaraDNS needs to be compiled with authonly support to use ipv6.
• Documents added: Document for Debian users telling them how to update to a supported version of MaraDNS; MaraDNS coding style document.
• Documents updated: Security web page; Roadmap web page; Download web page; COPYING file (copyright updated); mararc man page; duende man page
• Web page update: HTML modified so all web page documents parse in Dillo without any reported errors.
• SQA tests added: Test to make sure private IPs work; tests added for most mararc parameters
• SQA tests updated to not generated any visible messages except "test XXX succeeded"
• askmara updated to correctly escape hash ('#') characters in TXT records
• It's now possible again, when debug_msg_level has a sufficiently high level, to remotely see MaraDNS' timestamp when MaraDNS is only doing recursion.
• The mararc parameter dns_port now works.
• AIX support contributed by Alfred Reibenschuh

(2007.10.19)

maradns-1.3.07.06:

• .rpm files no longer part of MaraDNS release. People who wish to have a .rpm can use the .spec file in build/ to make their own .rpm files.
• A script now automatically updates the .spec file
• Documents added: Document for Debian users telling them how to update to a supported version of MaraDNS; MaraDNS coding style document.
• Documents updated: Security web page; Roadmap web page; Download web page; COPYING file (copyright updated); mararc man page; duende man page
• Web page update: HTML modified so all web page documents parse in Dillo without any reported errors.
• SQA tests added: Test to make sure private IPs work; tests added for most mararc parameters
• SQA tests updated to not generated any visible messages except "test XXX succeeded"
• askmara updated to correctly escape hash ('#') characters in TXT records
• It's now possible again, when debug_msg_level has a sufficiently high level, to remotely see MaraDNS' timestamp when MaraDNS is only doing recursion.
• The mararc parameter dns_port now works.
• AIX support contributed by Alfred Reibenschuh

(2007.10.19)

maradns-1.3.08:

(1.3.07 changes are limited to bugfixes, new SQA tests, and documentation changes, and Mr. Sarton is making a lot of positive contributions improving IPV6 performance that I can't add to the 1.3.07 branch)

• IPV6 support added to askmara and fetchzone by Jean-Jacques Sarton.
• Support for FQDN6 records contributed by Jean-Jacques Sarton, and documented by myself.
• Advocacy documented updated to be current with MaraDNS and a couple of abandoned DNS servers; references added to support list of DjbDNS bugs.
• Security document updated.
• Tutorials updated to point out one can have the recursor use custom name resolution for subtrees of the DNS space.
• SQA tests to test all mararc dictionary variables added.
• maraconf.sh updated
• Support for NAPTR record added
• FAQ updated
• Tools that help me make new MaraDNS releases added to tools/misc directory.

(2007.09.21)

maradns-1.3.07.05:

• Advocacy documented updated to be current with MaraDNS and a couple of abandoned DNS servers; references added to support list of DjbDNS bugs.
• Security document updated.
• Tutorials updated to point out one can have the recursor use custom name resolution for subtrees of the DNS space.
• SQA tests to test all mararc dictionary variables added.
• maraconf.sh updated
• FAQ updated

(2007.09.21)

maradns-1.0.41:

• Backport of 1.3 bugfix for improper rotation of resource records.

(2007.08.29)

maradns-1.2.12.08:

• Backport of 1.3 bugfix for improper rotation of resource records.

(2007.08.29)

maradns-1.3.07.04:

• Bugfix: Cause of improper rotation of resource records found and fixed. I would like to thank Michael Krieger for his bug report.
• Cleanup: MinGW32 compile-time warnings removed
• Documentation: All SQA regressions now have README files; zoneserver man page now has example mararc file
• Patch contributed by Joerg Sonnenberger making things easier to compile in DragonflyBSD
• Install.sh directory for documentation fixed. I would like to thank Brandon Holbrook for his bug report.
• SQA meta-script that runs and verifies all SQA regressions added
• SQA tests added: Spurious "bad query" messages, "percent" parse bug (doesn't seem to ever have been a real bug), "noat" parse bug, Star handling when bind_star_handling has a value of 1, improper RR rotation bug, and making sure the example mararc file in the zoneserver man page is correct

(2007.08.29)

maradns-1.2.12.07:

• Bugfix: If bind_star_handling was set to 2, MaraDNS would leak memory when the existance of another RR stopped resolution using a star record.
• Bugfix: bind_star_handling, when set to 2, now appears to do the right thing.
• Bugfix: Non-critical double-free() removed.
• Bugfix: askmara no longer goes in to an infinite loop when it receives an invalid TXT record.
• Bugfix: csv2 parser now makes sure that TXT chunks are no longer than 255 characters in all cases.

(2007.08.16)

maradns-1.3.07.03:

• Bugfix: It is now possible to have a csv2_default_zonefile without any other zonefiles (This was a 1.3-only bug)
• Bugfix: recurse_delegation now correctly works (1.3-only bug)
• Cleanup: Documentation files with DOS-style newlines converted to have UNIX-style newlines
• Script to update MaraDNS can now be run from a POSIX-compliant /bin/sh, and no longer uses bash-specific syntax
• RFC2181 compliant truncation regression finished
• SQA tests added: ANY and case insensitivity, LOC records, bind_star_handling set to 2, csv2_default_zonefile, NS delegation tests

(2007.08.16)

maradns-1.3.07.02:

• Bugfix: askmara no longer goes in to an infinite loop when it receives an invalid TXT record
• Bugfix: csv2 parser now makes sure that TXT chunks are no longer than 255 characters in all cases.
• SQA regressions added: RFC2181 compliant truncation, askmara bug, csv2 parser long TXT chunk bug.

(2007.06.29)

maradns-1.3.07.01:

• Documentation for the bind2csv2.py utility the converts zone files from BIND to MaraDNS format added.

(2007.06.21)

maradns-1.3.06:

• Bugfix: If bind_star_handling was set to 2, MaraDNS would leak memory when the existance of another RR stopped resolution using a star record.
• Bugfix: bind_star_handling, when set to 2, now appears to do the right thing.
• Testing: Unit tests for the five memory leaks that have appeared in the 1.2/1.3 branches of MaraDNS.
• Bugfix: The default max_mem is now a lot bigger when we need threads to perform recursion.

(2007.06.19)

maradns-1.3.05:

• New mararc variable, max_mem added, that limits the amount of memory MaraDNS will allocate.
• Bugfix: Whether to give a NXDOMAIN or a "not there" reply with star records fixed to be RFC1034 and RFC4074 compliant.
• Bugfix: Reply for hosts not in a csv2_default_zonefile now correctly return a "not there" instead of a NXDOMAIN (unless there is no host of any RR type that matches the desired name).
• Bugfix: João Antunes Predator tool found two memory leaks. Fixed.

(2007.05.21)

maradns-1.2.12.06:

• Bugfix: Whether to give a NXDOMAIN or a "not there" reply with star records fixed to be RFC1034 and RFC4074 compliant.
• Bugfix: Reply for hosts not in a csv2_default_zonefile now correctly return a "not there" instead of a NXDOMAIN (unless there is no host of any RR type that matches the desired name).
• Bugfix: João Antunes Predator tool found two memory leaks. Fixed.

(2007.05.17)

maradns-1.3.04:

This is a testing release of MaraDNS.

• Remco pointed out that MaraDNS is not RFC4074 section 4.2 compliant. Fixed.
• Update of recursive server to make it more robust against certain DOS attacks.
• The port range that the recursive resolver binds to can now be changed in the mararc file
• FAQ and SQA updates

(2007.03.22)

maradns-1.0.40:

This is a legacy release of MaraDNS

• Backport of patch to make recursive server more robust against certain DOS attacks.

(2007.03.05)

maradns-1.2.12.05:

This is a stable release of MaraDNS

• LOC records with a precision that is a multiple of 10 now work.
• Memory leak found by Rani Assaf plugged.
• Recursive server now more robust against certain DOS attacks.
• Documentation updates.

(2007.02.17)

maradns-1.3.03:

This is a testing release of MaraDNS.

• Memory leak found by Rani Assaf plugged; SQA suite now has regression that will find this leak.
• Whether to recurse when MaraDNS would otherwise give out a NS delegation record is now a user-settable feature.
• Bugfix: '.' can now be a hostname by itself.
• Bugfix: MaraDNS now compiles with gcc 2.96 again.
• The version.maradns special query now works in a 100% recursive server again (as long as admin_acl is set and gives permissions).
• When the tilde is used to separate records, it is no longer necessary to have some of the WKS or LOC fields be on the same line.
• When the tilde is used to separate records, it is no longer possible to have a pipe (|), hash (#), or nonprintable control character in a TXT record. This will make parsing of csv2 files by scripts easier.
• When the tilde is used to separate records, multiple TXT chunks can now be separated by whitespace. This allows for foo.% TXT 'chunk 1' 'chunk 2' records.
• Documentation updates.

(2007.02.14)

maradns-1.3.02:

This is a testing release of MaraDNS.

• The recursive resolver can now use custom root servers for subtrees of the DNS space; for example root_servers["local."] = "10.1.2.3"
• Windows port now compiles with -Os, resulting in a smaller Windows binary (actually, when I built the 1.2.12.04 binary, I set this parameter by hand; now it's the default Windows build flag)
• Windows port now uses pthreads-w32 2.8 instead of pthreads-w32 2.6
• csv2 parsing code updated to always allow and always ignore commented tildes
• Bugfix: Star records that aren't in an authoritative zone now work
• MaraDNS now will not waste time trying to find authoritative records if there are no authoritative records to find
• Some minor webpage updates
• Troubleshooting guide added to tutorial

(2007.01.09)

maradns-1.3.01:

This is a testing release of MaraDNS.

• csv2 zone files now can use tildes to separate resource records.
• New mararc variables: upstream_port and bind_port
• zoneserver now kills its child processes when getting a TERM signal.
• zoneserver now tells people the IP of failed zone transfer attempts when verbose_level is 4 or higher.

(2006.12.21)

maradns-1.2.12.04:

This is a stable release of MaraDNS.

• Bugfix: make debug works again. Note that make debug really slows MaraDNS down.
• ej2man now works with both Perl 5.8.0 and 5.8.8. I would like to thank the people on comp.lang.perl.misc for their help.
• ej2txt now works with different versions of links.
• Fixed bug with ANY and case sensitivity. I would like to thank Kyler Laird for pointing out this issue.
• Added new mararc variable, csv2_tilde_handling that currently does nothing but require, if set, having the value of 0. This is here so a MaraDNS 1.2.12 mararc is compatible with some future plans I have.
• Added new compiler define UPSTREAM_PORT in MaraDns.h that allows the port MaraDNS uses to connect to other nameservers to be more easily changed.

(2006.11.24)

maradns-1.2.12.03:

This is a stable release of MaraDNS.

• Bugfix: MaraDNS no longer sends out incorrect "server fail" DNS messages. This should make MaraDNS a better resolver.
• Bugfix: Spurious "Bad query received" messages.
• Some minor updates to the documentation
• Incomplete bind2csv2.py script added; this is a work in progress.
• Advocacy document is now a part of the MaraDNS.org webpage.
• Updates to Daniel Zilli's maraconf script.

(2006.10.08)

maradns-1.2.12.02:

This is a stable release of MaraDNS.

• Slight cleanup to new Csv2 parsing code
• Bugfix: A PTR that pointed to a CNAME that pointed to a non-responsive server would create a slightly invalid DNS packet. Fixed.
• Bugfix: RFC2181-compliant truncation was broken. Fixed.
• Updates to the old pre-1.0 testbed to run this testbed again (MaraDNS passed with flying colors)
• Updates to the 1.2 testbed
• Updates to the stress test that sends a large number of real DNS queries
• FAQ entry about how to debug NS delegation problems added
• Updates to FAQ and documentation.
• Minor update to compression code to make it conform to MaraDNS coding style.
• Documents advocating MaraDNS added (this is a work in progress)
• mqhash utility documented.
• Various non-critical memory leaks (memory allocated once during startup which wasn't correctly freed) and one minor error (which was not a security problem) were detected by Valgrind and fixed.
• .pdf man page reference now uses letter size paper again.

(2006.08.14)

maradns-1.2.12.01:

This is a testing release of MaraDNS.

• Memory leak plugged: MaraDNS' resolver was leaking about 300 bytes whenever someone asked for a PTR that pointed to a CNAME that didn't point to a legitimate PTR.
• Vlatko Kosturjak from Croatia has added chkconfig support to the RPM spec file.
• Documentation on making MaraDNS a Win32 service added.
• Truncation of records too long to fit in a 512-byte packet now done in a RFC2181-compliant manner.
• Slash commands added to csv2 zone files: '/serial', which allows the serial for a zone file to be automatically updated whenever the zone file is edited; '/ttl', which allows the default TTL to be changed; '/origin', which allows the origin to be changed; '/opush' and '/opop' which allow the origin's values to be put on a stack; and '/read', which allows another file to be included in a zonefile.
• Some tidying of the Csv2 parsing code to deallocate unneeded memory resources; this should lower MaraDNS memory usage when a large number of csv2 zone files exist.
• Records stored in the authoritative half are now always marked "authoritative" in the DNS header; records not in a zone will simply not have NS records in the NS/AR section of the answer.
• Download page revamped to be faster and easier to use.

(2006.07.26)

maradns-1.0.39:

• Backport of memory leak fix to 1.0 branch of MaraDNS

(2006.07.24)

maradns-1.2.07.8:

• Backport of adding infomation about dangling CNAMEs to FAQ from testing branch (see Debian bug #373781)
• Backport of explicit exit 0 added to MaraDNS start/stop script (Debian bug #374655)
• Backport of 1.2.11 bugfix: We can now have email addresses without @ (using . instead)
• Memory leak plugged: MaraDNS' resolver was leaking about 300 bytes whenever someone asked for a PTR that pointed to a CNAME that didn't point to a legitimate PTR.
• Vlatko Kosturjak from Croatia has added chkconfig support to the RPM spec file.

(2006.07.24)

maradns-1.2.11:

• All known RR types added to MaraDns.h
• Support for the following RR types added to CSV2 zone files: HINFO, WKS, MD, MF, MB, MG, MINFO, MR, AFSDB, RP, X25, ISDN, RT, NSAP, NSAP-PTR, PX, GPOS, and LOC.
• Bugfix: We can now have email addresses without @ (using . instead)

(2006.07.18)

maradns-1.2.07.7:

• Backport of patch to work around Perl á annoyances to the stable branch.

(2006.07.12)

maradns-1.2.10:

• Issues with á in man pages finally fixed; Perl is such a pain sometimes
• More timestamp types added as per Remmy's patch
• Information about dangling CNAME entries added to FAQ (see Debian bug #373781)
• Explicit exit 0 added to MaraDNS start/stop script (see Debian bug #374655)

(2006.06.21)

maradns-1.2.07.6:

• Backport of MaraDNS 1.2.09 Microsoft.com fix to stable branch
• Backport of MaraDNS 1.2.08 ej2man fix to stable branch

(2006.06.16)

maradns-1.0.38:

Backport of MaraDNS 1.2.09 Microsoft.com fix to legacy 1.0 branch

(2006.06.16)

maradns-1.2.09:

• Recursive resolver patched to be able to process the bizarre packets that Microsoft.com's DNS server makes.
• Some minor documentation cleanup.

(2006.06.14)

maradns-1.2.08:

• Added support for RFC4408 SPF record type
• Added new mararc variable retry_cycles. This allows us to contact all of the DNS servers to resolve a name before giving up.
• Updated ej2man to not put a literal á in man page nroff sources (Debian's lint doesn't like this).
• Askmara updated to inform user of error from remote DNS server.

(2006.06.11)

maradns-1.2.07.5:

• Bugfix: ANY queries point to star records now works
• pdf file problems should be fixed

(2006.05.29)

maradns-1.2.07.4:

• Delegation NS records fixed
• Some minor mararc parsing bugs fixed
• Documentation tweaks (the webpage now validates, etc.)

(2006.05.23)

maradns-1.2.07.3:

• MaraDNS compiles on OpenBSD (Thanks, Adam Montague, for the OpenBSD account).
• MaraDNS RPM file fixed to include /etc/maradns/logger directory that the daeminizing tool needs.
• Documentation updated to clarify that a single name can have more than one IP
• Updated the mqhash password management utility (Next: Document this useful little program).
• The binary RPM is now built on CentOS 3.7 instead of RedHat 6.2

(2006.05.15)

maradns-1.0.37:

This is an update for the 1.0 legacy branch of MaraDNS

• Removed all example mararc files which allow any IP on the internet to perform recursive queries (these can be used for denial of service attacks)

(2006.04.07)

maradns-1.2.03.6:

Unless there is demand from MaraDNS' users, this will be the last release for the legacy 1.2.03 branch of MaraDNS.

• Backport of zoneserver startup fix from the 1.2.07 branch.

(2006.04.07)

maradns-1.2.07.2:

• Location of Duende in the zoneserver startup script was broken. Fixed. Thanks to Daniel Zilli for finding this.
• Have the server return "server fail" instead of "format error" when no nameservers can be contacted when trying to resolve a given host name.
• Make the default behavior for the above case be to send out that "server fail" message.
• Added Danial Zilli's wonderful Brazilian Portuguese translation of Mara's documents and status messages.

(2006.04.05)

maradns-1.2.07.1:

• duende now always logs a message before exiting
• zone names are now case-insensitive.
• Programs in sqa/ directory can compile again.
• Dictionary variables now must be initialized to work.
• Documentation updated.

(2006.03.22)

maradns-1.2.03.5:

• duende tool always logs something before exiting
• "Using default ICANN servers" message now has newline
• Broken upstream_servers example in docs fixed

(2006.03.21)

maradns-1.2.06: This is a testing (possibly unstable) release of MaraDNS.

• Many minor updates to the documentation.
• Web page HTML/CSS updated to look better in MSIE 6.
• New mararc variable, handle_noreply, which determines how to inform the DNS client that no remote servers could be contacted when trying to resolve a host name.
• It is now possible to send DNS error messages via the udperror() function again.
• Some minor update to how log messages are output.

(2006.03.10)

maradns-1.2.03.4:

• It is now possible to send DNS error messages via the udperror() function again.

(2006.03.03)

maradns-1.2.05:

This is a testing (possibly unstable) release of MaraDNS.

• Added faq entry about setting upstream_servers
• Removed three unimplemented (or never documented and disabled) mararc variables: tuzona_inetd, win9x_service, and resurrections.
• Out-of-bailiwick authoritative records now no longer have an authority section.
• New csv2 record type "FQDN4"; this is an A record which automatically makes the corresponding PTR record.
• CNAME records now mentioned in csv2 man page.
• Improved error message for a hostname that doesn't end in a '.' (or '%').
• Added admin_acl mararc variable, to limit the IPs that can see MaraDNS' version number (and debug information about MaraDNS' internal state when debug_msg_level is set).
• Added remote_admin mararc variable, which allows IPs listed in admin_acl to remotely change the amount of information logged by MaraDNS. This is mainly for debugging problems on high-traffic sites where a full log is too large (and slows things down too much) to be practical.

(2006.02.21)

maradns-1.2.03.3:

• MaraDNS 1.2.04 Cygwin fix patch applied to the stable branch
• FAQ updated to tell people how to use upstream_servers

(2006.02.10)

maradns-1.2.04:

This is a testing (potentially unstable) release of MaraDNS.

• Cygwin fix: chroot() and setuid() do not effectively work on Cygwin; MaraDNS updated to not use these calls in Cygwin. This makes the Cygwin release not have all of the security of a native UNIX version of MaraDNS.
• RPM updates: Spec file made current; mararc for RPM updated for MaraDNS 1.2; RPM updated by Greg Swallow to compile on CentOS 3 and 4.
• Updates to the recursive code to make MaraDNS run better when used by a large ISP:
  1. TTL determining code updated
  2. Two minor typos fixed
  3. Custodian tweaked to work better under high load
  4. maxprocs can now be as high as 5000
  5. min_visible_ttl mararc variable added

(2006.02.09)

maradns-1.2.03.2:

• Hotfix: Re-apply fix for broken Linux 2.6 kernel behavior which causes MaraDNS to freeze.
• Mingw32: Have the binaries stripped

(2006.02.02)

maradns-1.2.03.1:

• Fixed issue with ANY queries pointed out by Christian Klossek.
• Made bind_star_handling even more RFC-compliant: If *.example.com. and bar.example.com. exist, then foo.bar.example.com. should point to "not there" instead of whatever *.example.com points at.
• Updated mingw32 port: Removed compile-time warnings, set up scripts to mostly automate making the .zip file for the win32 MaraDNS binary.
• Updated numbering scheme to use major.minor.revision.patchlevel for stable 1.2 releases; this allows the 1.2 branch to better have both a testing and a stable branch.

(2006.01.21)

maradns-1.2.02: This is a beta-test potentially unstable release, since the changes are significant enough to warrant full testing before declaring this as stable as previous 1.2 releases of MaraDNS.

• Changed build process to have consistent compile-time flags in all directories, and to allow people on unsupported platforms to compile MaraDNS after they look at obnoxious error message.
• Fixed all of the compile-time warnings this change brought out.
• Added a new mararc variable, bind_star_handling for people who want full BIND compatibility with star records.
• Documentation updates: bind_star_handling documented, SOURCE.FILES made current.
• Copyright notice updated for 2006
• .gz tarball now optimized by Igor Pavlov and Andrea Mazzoleni's advdef program; this reduces size of .gz tarball by about 5%

(2006.01.02)

maradns-1.2.01:

• Added script that will (mostly) automatically explode the tarball of the last release of MaraDNS, apply the patches, update the doc, and make the patches part of the 1.2 release.
• Updated dangling CNAME document to clarify that typos can also cause the dangling CNAME warning.
• Updated the tarball building process of MaraDNS to also use Igor Pavlov's LZMA compression to make a compressed MaraDNS tarball which is both smaller and extracts faster than the bzip2 tarball.
• Fixed spurious dangling CNAME warning bug which Alex Kapranoff found.

(2006.01.01)