MaraDNS changelog

maradns-1.3.11:

This is a development release of MaraDNS.

• 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:

This is a stable release of MaraDNS.

• 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:

This is a stable (soon to be "previous stable") release of MaraDNS. This will also be the last MaraDNS release to include RPM files, but 1.3 releases always have an up-to-date .spec file.

• Backport 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:

This is a development release of MaraDNS.

• 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:

This is a beta testing release of MaraDNS.

• 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:

This is a development release of MaraDNS.

• 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:

This is a beta testing release of MaraDNS.

• .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:

This is a development release of MaraDNS, and a new branch of MaraDNS

(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:

This is a beta testing release of MaraDNS.

• 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:

This is a legacy release of MaraDNS.

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

(2007.08.29)

maradns-1.2.12.08:

This is a stable release of MaraDNS.

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

(2007.08.29)

maradns-1.3.07.04:

This is a beta testing release of MaraDNS.

• 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:

This is a stable bugfix-only release of MaraDNS. All of these bug fixes are backports of bugs fixed in the 1.3 branch.

• 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:

This is a beta testing release of MaraDNS.

• 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:

This is a beta testing release of MaraDNS.

• 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:

This is a beta testing release of MaraDNS.

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

(2007.06.21)

maradns-1.3.06:

This is a testing release of MaraDNS.

• 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:

This is a testing release of MaraDNS.

• 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:

This is a stable release of MaraDNS.

• 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)

maradns-1.0.36:

This is a bugfix release for the legacy 1.0 branch of MaraDNS.

• A backport of the 2-line patch recently posted to the mailing list concerning incorrect dangling CNAME warnings

(2005.12.31)

maradns-1.2.00:

This is the new stable release of MaraDNS, which is an update of the 1.0 branch. The 1.0 branch will be maintained for standard bugfixes until December 21, 2007; critical security fixes, should they occur, will be applied to the 1.0 branch until December 21, 2010.

Here are the changes from 1.1.91:

• A small change to dns/Decompress.c so that MaraDNS runs on the compiler that comes with the IBM Power version of SuSE.
• Minor corrections to the FAQ
• BINDFAIL message no longer says that there's probably another process using port 53; there are a number of things that can trigger this error message and the "System said" message usually explains what's really going on.
• Pointed out that Macintosh-style newlines break the csv2 parser's ability to tell the user what line the error is on (This should generally not be a practical issue, since it is uncommon for people to use this text file format; it's too close to 1.2.00 to fix this).
• Update to the ej2man script so we don't have a raw accented character in the maradns man page (we use the ROFF \('a instead)

(2005.12.21)

maradns-1.1.91:

This is the second release candidate for MaraDNS 1.2.

Here are the changes from 1.1.90:

• Made all manpage headings all-caps, to be consistent with standard manpage style.
• Updated "unsupported features" part of MaraDNS man page to point out that 1.2 now supports more non-RFC1035 DNS features
• Plain text documents in a more easily found directory (doc/en/text instead of doc/en/tutorial/text).
• Added a modified version of Paul Sowden and Peter-Paul Koch's styleswitcher.js file so that people who need a large font to read a web page can get the large font with just one click.
• Updated the authoritative and recursive tutorial documents to cover the case of wanting a recursive name server to have private host names.
• Explicitly tell the user /etc/mararc is not being replaced during make install process.
• Updated the FAQ for version 1.2 of MaraDNS.
• Split up the DNS introduction document and the list of all tutorials, usage guides, and man pages.
• Added makefile in webpage document (now I have a one-command way of updating the MaraDNS webpage).
• Spelling errors checked and corrected in all tutorial and man page documents.

(2005.12.14)

maradns-1.1.90:

This is the first release candidate of MaraDNS 1.2. Should no one report any problems with this release, this will be released, unchanged, as MaraDNS 1.2.00 on December 21.

Here are the changes from 1.1.61:

• Fixed some bugs in the ej2man script; the man pages now look nicer.
• Added a new EJ tag: HIBIT; this allows some EJ output to contain hi-bit characters (such as HTML pages) while other EJ output has equivalent content with no hi-bit characters (such as man pages, which don't take well to non-ASCII)
• Fixed rendering problems with the pdf manpage reference (I updated ps2pdf to the one from the latest 8.53 Ghostscript) and added the csv2_txt man page to this reference (HIBIT makes this now possible).
• Renamed security_design.html security.html to make it clear this is a document about MaraDNS' security.

(2005.12.07)

maradns-1.1.61:

• Document minor updates: default value of timestamp_type is now five (this was changed in 1.1.60); Clarify that maradns needs to be restarted to reload zones in DNSslave document; corrected misspelled words and minor grammatical errors in the Quick Start guide
• Mac OS X port: MaraDNS sucessfully compiles on Mac OS X (Darwin) again; all compile-time warnings removed.
• MinGW32 port: Changed port to use #ifdef statements instead of a patch to make source Win32-compatible; this allows me to make source changes without having to constantly update the mingw32 patch.

(2005.12.05)

maradns-1.1.60:

• Authoritative tutorial expanded and updated
• DNS master document written; DNS tcp document updated
• Procedure for making text files updated
• Text files for tutorial added
• Examples added to "dangling" document
• Updated spec file to include maradns.zoneserver startup script
• Removed OSRC (open-rsc.org doesn't resolve) and Alternic (alternic.org owned by squatter) from example full mararc file
• Added document on being a DNS slave
• Verified that shell scripts in dnsslave document work
• Created document on updating from MaraDNS 1.0 to 1.2 (most of the time, change nothing)
• Many other tutorial improvments
• Verified spelling of all tutorial documents
• mararc man page correction: csv1 zone files are for MaraDNS 1.0, not 1.X
• HR tag added to ej specification.

(2005.12.03)

maradns-1.1.59:

• Cygwin port fix: ipv6 not compiled in authonly mode on Cygwin (Cygwin doesn't yet have ipv6)
• Updated RPM-building spec file for the 1.1 branch of MaraDNS

(2005.11.28)

maradns-1.1.58:

• Cleaned up the FreeBSD compile
• Cleaned up the Cygwin compile; MaraDNS compiles on Cygwin again
• Removed all warnings seen when compiling on Cygwin (Cygwin GCC is a little more pedantic than Linux GCC)
• Updated the Mingw32 patch
• Fixed issue with install script (see mailing list)

(2005.11.23)

maradns-1.1.57:

• Partial port of MaraDNS to mingw32 (can you say maradns.exe) done.
• Since 127.0.0.3 doesn't work on many systems, changing all loopback examples to use the IP address 127.0.0.1; also changing Askmara's default server address to 127.0.0.1

(2005.11.21)

maradns-1.0.35:

• Backport of 1.1.x fix of csv1 example in documentation
• Backport of 1.1.x fix of MINFO RR description
• Backport of 1.1.x security fix.

(2005.11.20)

maradns-1.1.56:

• SECURITY FIX: Made the RNG algorithm resistant to cache sniffing attacks. See this page for a full description of this security issue.
• Modified configure script to not compile on unsupported systems.

(2005.11.20)

maradns-1.1.55:

• This is the first Beta-test release for the up-and-coming MaraDNS 1.2
• Fixed description of minfo RR in DNS compression code
• Fixed askmara to correctly output SOA and RAW records
• Changed zoneserver to use select() model for handling the processing of child process' output (thanks, Albert)
• Initialized some uninitialized variables (thanks again, Albert)
• Added Albert Lee to CREDITS file
• Removed perl and gawk dependencies from franky.hosts.test test (the only thing we now need to pull from ports on FreeBSD to run this is Bash)
• Alpha-level SQA testing done.

(2005.11.18)

maradns-1.1.54:

• Updated csv1tocsv2.pl and ej2man scripts to be able to use a Perl interpreter that is not in /usr/bin
• Both UIDs that the zoneserver becomes are now determined by the "maradns_uid" mararc variable.
• The zoneserver now uses the "maradns_gid" variable.
• Corrected spelling of "privileges"

(2005.11.14)

maradns-1.1.53:

• SQA: Added scripts to help with Y2038 testing
• Y2038 fix: MaraDNS is now fully functional before and after the Y2038 turnover on systems with 32-bit timestamps.
• Update year_2038_statement; MaraDNS is now Y2038-compliant.
• Updated Y2038 libraries to be thread-safe
• Bug fix: A hostname can now be the first line in a csv2 zone file
• Doc fix: Fixed broken "U" record example in csv1 man page
• Bug fix: The zoneserver now makes upper-case domain names lower-case
• Bug fix: The zoneserver now correctly serves csv2 star records

(2005.11.09)

maradns-1.1.52:

• Took care of segfault that only happened in FreeBSD
• Made non-root running of MaraDNS possible again
• Added FreeBSD-specific Makefiles

(2005.11.06)

maradns-1.0.34:

• Hotfix: recursion works again
• Regression procedure added.

(2005.10.26)

maradns-1.0.33:

• Fixed occassional crash that happens while reading zone files at MaraDNS startup.
• Fixed occassional compression error which shows up in MaraDNS logs.
• Update man page to point out some unimplemented features will be in 1.2

(2005.10.24)

maradns-1.1.51:

• Bug fix: hide_disclaimer is now case insensitive (any three-letter string will now hide the disclaimer, in fact)
• Bug fix: Unknown mararc variable error message will not have a \012 in it.
• Added PDF file which is a printable reference of MaraDNS man pages
• Fixed problems with synth_soa_origin and synth_soa_seria
• Fixed js_append.3 man page (returns 0, not JS_SUCCESS, on success)

(2005.10.23)

maradns-1.1.50:

• Fixed a bug which caused people to see compression errors (The bug was caused when a PTR record pointed to a non-existant record)
• Web design touch-up: The web page is now centered (I found the code to force Firefox to always have a scrollbar like IE); looks better in MacIE/IE4/Opera 5; the handheld and printing stylesheets look better.
• Cleanup of install script; csv2 zone file installed instead of csv1 zone file; etc.
• Cleanup and clarification of default mararc file
• Changed makefile in rng/ to keep the rng-32bit-tables.h file; this will make things easier for people trying to cross-compile MaraDNS
• Made MaraDNS' default UID, GID, logger UID, and Duende chroot() directory defined near the beginning of MaraDns.h; this will make it easier for packagers to redefine these constants.
• Fixed zoneserver to have enough default values so that it works with the included example mararc.
• Fixed bugs in the serving of long packets over TCP; MaraDNS can now serve long DNS packets over TCP, breaking the 512-byte limit.
• askmara now correctly outputs multi-chunk TXT records (unless called with -v)
• Two new mararc varables added: synth_soa_origin and synth_soa_serial. These are here mainly so that people who test MaraDNS 1.2 domains over at dnsreport.com can have a synthetic SOA record that doesn't generate any errors.

(2005.10.20)

maradns-1.1.49:

• Revised pages on the web page to have a minimum number of HTML errors. (Let's keep the validator fairly happy)
• Added a new feature, long_packet_ipv4, which will allow packets longer then 512 bytes long (compressed) to be sent from MaraDNS via TCP (we have a list of IPs which we can send UDP packets longer than 512 bytes to; zoneserver translates these packets to standards-conforming TCP packets). This is only enabled if MaraDNS is compiled as an authoritative-only nameserver.
• MaraDNS now generates no warning when compiled with GCC 3.4.2 as both an authoritative-only nameserver and as a recursive nameserver.
• MaraDNS, when compiled as an authoritative-only nameserver, now compiles with the name maradns.authonly. The install and startup scripts have been revised to reflect this change.
• Tutorial for doing DNS over TCP has been created.
• Updated security design document and added all known security problems to the document
• Updated startup script to add a script (disabled by default) which starts up MaraDNS' zoneserver.

(2005.10.08)

maradns-1.1.48:

• Fixed bugs in mararc processing so that a mararc file with only three lines (four for an authoritative nameserver) works again.
• Updated all of the documentation to reflect the 1.1 changes and updates to MaraDNS.
• Updated web page design of MaraDNS web page; the page will look almost identical on a modern CSS browser on a PC (including IE 5/6) but will look better on non-CSS browsers, handheld browsers, and when printed out. Additionally, there is a "large print" style that makes the web page more accessible.

(2005.10.04)

maradns-1.1.47:

• Set up recursive stress test to make sure recursive resolver doesn't leak memory nor crash (it doesn't)
• Working on updating the CSS for MaraDNS's web page to look better in non-CSS browsers (Changes aren't live yet; look at mixed_css_try3)
• csv2 security updates:

  1. The hostname for a record must be at the beginning of a line.

  2. No more than one pipe (|) character is allowed between csv2 fields.

• Documentation updates: Recursive tutorial updated to reflect the fact that a recursive server now only needs a 3-line mararc file.

(2005.10.01)

maradns-1.1.46:

• Issue with recursive ANY queries resolved
• All compile-time warnings removed; MaraDNS now compiles with zero warnings when compiled with -Wall

(2005.09.25)

maradns-1.1.45:

This release is the last 1.1.x release which adds new features to MaraDNS. Until MaraDNS 1.2.00 is release, the only changes will be documentation updates and bugfixes.

• I have removed maragen until it can be updated to use the csv2 zone files.
• Some doc cleanup; removing outdated documents in doc/en/misc, merging the old changelog with the current changelog, etc.
• CNAME records will now give, in the answer section, the record the CNAME record points to for any RR type, not just A (and to a limited extent, PTR) records.
• ANY queries now more-or-less work with recursive queries again.
• Bogus SOA "not there" replies now have a narrower scope than ".".
• Fixed problem with empty TXT and RAW records in csv1tocsv2.pl

(2005.09.24)

maradns-1.1.44:

• The RCODE in the DNS headers will now correctly return a NXDOMAIN as long as there are no RRs with the given DNS name in question. Otherwise, the RCODE returned is zero.
• Added a new tool in the tools directory, called csv1tocsv2.pl, which is a Perl script that converts csv1 zone files in to csv2 zone files.

(2005.09.13)

maradns-1.1.43:

• MaraDNS 1.0.32 bugfix forward-ported to 1.1.43
• Duende will now output error on standard out when it dies unexpectably

(2005.08.10)

maradns-1.0.32:

Hotfix: RR rotation now works again.
(2005.08.08)

maradns-1.0.31:

Two patches by Albert Lee that improve Mara's stability.
(2005.08.07)

maradns-1.0.30:

• Warn the user when they have dangling CNAME records
• Fix bug with MX records with preferences > 255 in getzone tool

(2005.06.30)

maradns-1.1.42:

• Removed debug information showing in hex the bind address
• ipv6 logging now works
• hide_disclaimer works again
• The code to handle ANY queries is essentially completely rewritten.

(2005.06.22)

maradns-1.1.41:

• Make all example ipv6 addresses 3ffe:ffff example addresses
• New mararc variable: csv2_synthip_list
• Get the zoneserver to read ipv4_bind_addresses and csv2_synthip_list
• Allow spaces in ip_acl lists
• Document: How to set up a default zonefile
• Give out a bogus SOA reply when none of the servers for the domain can be reached.

(2005.06.12)

maradns-1.1.40:

• Warning now shown for dangling cname records
• bind_address now has ipv4_bind_addresses name (bind_address still works, of course)

(2005.06.07)

maradns-1.1.39:

• MaraDNS now has full authoritative-only ipv6 support

(2005.06.05)

maradns-1.1.38:

• Fixed security problem with new fetchzone tool. More details in in the maradns-1.1.37-fetchzone_security.patch file
• Added support for dos_protection_level which will disable certain MaraDNS features to make her respond more quickly to DNS requests; this is useful for very highly loaded servers or for surviving denial-of-service attacks.
• Wrote code to support binding to ipv6 addresses when MaraDNS is compiled as an authoritative-only nameserver. Work on this will continue when I get ip6 up and going on my Fedora Core 3 box.

(2005.05.28)

maradns-1.1.37:

• Support for stars at the end of hostnames is finished.
• Added ability to compile MaraDNS without recursive support; this makes the binary 20% smaller and not need the pthread library.

(2005.05.21)

maradns-1.1.36:

• Forward-ported the MaraDNS 1.0.29 changes in to the 1.1 branch.
• Applied Juergen's patch so that the 1.1 branch compiles again.
• Added code to work around Linux' select() before the recvfrom() in MaraDNS.c

(2005.05.14)

maradns-1.0.29:

This release improves how MaraDNS' recursive resolver parses packets so that Mara can interoperate better with some stub resolvers that don't bother looking past the header of a DNS packet.

(2005.05.13)

maradns-1.1.35:

This release forward-ports the improvments for MaraDNS 1.0.27 and MaraDNS 1.0.28 in to the 1.1 branch. (2005.05.06)

maradns-1.0.28:

The reason why MaraDNS' recursive resolver has been freezing up is because of a bug in the Linux kernel that the kernel developers are not interested in resolving. I would like to thank Albert Lee for providing a patch which resolves this issue.

(2005.05.06)

maradns-1.0.27:

• Patch to address possible security concern with the random number generator.
• Some updates to the documentation

(2005.05.02)

maradns-1.1.34:

• MaraDNS now supports stars at the end of hostnames. The only part of this feature that needs to be implemented is the ability to correctly handle the case when someone asks for a hostname or record type that the star does not catch.

(2005.04.30)

maradns-1.1.33:

• zoneserver now supports binding to multiple IP addresses

(2005.04.18)

maradns-1.1.32:

• Patched 1.1 branch so that it compiles on older versions of GCC again
• Made the ICANN list of root nameservers a default list, hardcoded in the MaraDNS code, if the user doesn't specify root servers in their mararc file. It is now possible to have a 3-line mararc file.
• Updated the quickstart guide to use the 3-line mararc example.
• Initialized variables that were uninitialized.
• Modified the mararc parser to exit on a fatal error if an unknown mararc variable is seen.
• Mofified the relevent zonefile parsing code to correctly parse the "default" zonefile (zone file with stars at end of hostnames).

(2005.04.09)

maradns-1.0.26:

Changes from 1.0.25:

• Small patch so MaraDNS will compile on older versions of GCC again

(2005.03.25)

maradns-1.1.31:

Changes from 1.1.30:

• Updated the zone file parser to improve (read: Make more pedantic) parsing of hostnames with '*' characters in them.
• Removed all compile-time warnings.
• New mararc variable, csv2_default_zonefile, created.

(2005.03.25)

maradns-1.1.30:

Changes from 1.1.29:

• Updated tutorial and list of ICANN root servers. Cleaned up root server lists in example mararcs (we no longer need long lines in mararc files)
• Added verbose_query mararc variable

(2005.03.16)

maradns-1.0.25:

Changes from 1.0.24:

• Upgraded the ICANN root nameservers and other elements of the documentation
• MaraDNS 1.0.xx compiles with no warning when compiled with -Wall again
• Added verbose_query mararc variable

(2005.03.16)

maradns-1.1.29:

Changes from 1.1.28:

• Updated macro processor to make any and all '{' characters in zone files illegal. This will break csv2 zone files with '{' characters currently in them.
• Updated install script to install duende tool and man page
• Updated MaraDNS startup script to use duende to invoke MaraDNS
• Updated the Quick Start guide and the MaraDNS man page to note duende daemonizing tool.
• Added debugging output which will hopefully make the recursive server occassionally freezing problem reproducible and fixable.

(2005.03.05)

maradns-1.1.28:

Changes from 1.1.27:

• Fixed bug with loading of synthetic SOA records in CSV2 zone files
• Updated roadmap to clarify goals for 1.2/2.0 release
• Zoneserver sucessfully transferred a zone to Bind 8.4.6
• Zoneserver sucessfully transferred a zone to Bind 9.2.4
• Zoneserver sucessfully transferred a zone to Bind 9.3.0
• Documentation for Duende tool updated to point out that the directory /etc/maradns/logger is mandatory for this tool
• Incorporated Juergen's patch that installs the fetchzone tool and man page
• alarm() call added to zoneserver to implement TCP timeout
• askmara documentation cleaned up, improved

(2005.02.26)

maradns-1.1.27:

Changes from 1.1.26:

• The recursive resolver now works again (using 64-bit Y2038-safe timestamps, to boot).
• Minor updates to documentation.

(2005.02.24)

maradns-1.1.26:

Changes from 1.1.25:

• Fixed bug where recursive server was outputting bad TTLs (I don't think this affects 1.0.xx)
• Made a number of bug fixes to the zoneserver so that it correctly serves zones (and SOA records) as a zoneserver
• Verified that the zoneserver works with the djbdns axfr client (axfr-get)
• Updated askmara's output and updated fetchzone's csv2-compatible output

(2005.02.23)

maradns-1.1.25:

Changes from 1.1.24:

• Checked examples in TXT/RAW record documentation, making fixes to documentation and/or code as needed.
• Corrected how askmara outputs TXT and raw records.
• Added support for asking for arbitrary record types in askmara. Updated man page to reflect this change.
• Changed examples in tutorial to not include SOA and NS records in example zone file; hopefully registars are no longer anal about this kind of thing.

(2005.02.20)

maradns-1.1.24:

Changes from 1.1.23:

• Fixed ej2man script to make correct ASCII single quotes in man pages.
• Added csv2_txt manual page to document TXT and RAW records.
• Added support for RAW (any RTYPE) records to the csv2 parser.
• Updated tutorial to use csv2 records.
• Minor updates to the web page (there was a minor blemish in the rock face texture which I surgically removed with Gimp).
• Mac OS X/Darwin fix for 1.0.24 integrated in to this release.

(2005.02.19)

maradns-1.1.23:

Changes from 1.1.22:

• Added support for TXT records to the CSV2 zone file.
• Added files to create the core maradns.org webpage to the documentation.

(2005.02.16)

maradns-1.0.24:

Changes from 1.0.23:

• Fixed the build process on MacOS X so it compiles again.
• Fixed some non-critical typos in the configure script.

(2005.02.15)

maradns-1.1.22:

Note: This revison changes the format of csv2 zone files from 1.1.21; this will be the last incompatible change to csv2 zone files done. All future changes will be backwards compatible with csv2 zone files.

• Fixed bug in csv2 parser where, when a newline causes a syntax error, the error is reported at the start of the new line instead of the end of the previous line.
• Made sure dnames are converted to lowercase before being put in to the bighash
• Got % shortcuts to work in the new csv2 zone files
• csv2 records have the authority data (the NS records for the zone) added.
• Synthesize ns records (have bogus names and have the NS ips be any non-private ip address we're bound to) if needed.
• Added code to synthesize a SOA record for csv2 zone files without a SOA record.
• Fixed bug that % doesn't work in dlabels in the data fields of an RR
• There is a working example csv2 file which documents what the file does
• Changed askmara to output records in csv2 format
• Created fetchzone tool that outputs records in csv2 format
• ej2man and ej2txt no longer use unicode for bullets
• There is now a man page for csv2 and fetchzone.
• Fixied bug with not being able to have UTF-8 at the beginning of a host name.
• fixed %-only MX exchanger bug
• a bind address can not be 0.0.0.0 if we have csv2 zone files (we now have support for binding to multiple IPs; 0.0.0.0 is a little buggy)
• Moved TTL to be before the rtype to be more like Bind's and Posadis' zone files.
• Moved TTL in fetchzone and askmara to be before the rtype.
• Added support for SRV records; Sean is actually using these
• Got the zoneserver to work with the new csv2 zone file (this took the lion's share of the work for the 1.1.22 release)
• Integrated Juergen Daubert's latest cleanup patches

(2004.06.30)

maradns-1.1.21:

• show_esc_stdout moved from parse/ParseCsv1.c to the more sensible libs/JsStrOS.c.
• Code for parsing ipv6 addresses written (it took 355 lines to parse stuff like "ffe:501:ffff::b:c:d"; compare this to 125 lines for ddip_2_ip which does the ipv4 equivalent)
• Support for CSV2 zone files is about 80% done; combined with the ipv6 address parsing, we're looking at 2348 new lines of code.

(2004.06.18)

maradns-1.1.20:

(Release 1.1.19 skipped because that was an accidental release I did last October)

• Changed tools to create utf-8 instead of Latin-1 man pages (Fedora Core Two does not like Latin-1 encoded man pages).
• Added support for the += operator in the mararc file. This operator is use for string concatenation. The goal (along with the csv2 file format) is to make it so MaraDNS never needs a line longer than 80 colums in a configuration file.
• Hopefully fixed bugs with mixed-case domain names.

(2004.06.03)

maradns-1.1.18:

This is a merge of the features present in MaraDNS 1.0.23 but not in 1.1.17 in to the 1.1.xx branch. Additionally, I have some ideas for a new zone file format in doc/en/misc (more like, I have a full definition of a finite state machine complete with psudo-code for processing of everything in this new proposed zone file format). Compiles, but I don't know if this runs.

(2004.06.01)

maradns-1.0.23:

Changes from 1.0.22:

• Corrected error where askmara incorrectly outputted MX records
• MaraDNS can now resolve star records when processing ANY queries
• The RD value in replies is now the same as the RD in the corresponding query
• Fixed some typos in old changelog entries

(2004.05.28)

maradns-1.0.22:

Changes from 1.0.21:

• Applied Juergen Daubert's patch that makes MaraDNS compile clean, even with all warnings enabled.
• Added testing for the zoneserver to the SQA suite
• Fixed a problem where the zone server would die after serving MAXFD zones.

(2004.05.25)

maradns-1.0.21:

This is MaraDNS 1.0.20 with a patch that solves an error one user reported with the parsing of zone files.

(2004.04.13)

maradns-1.0.20:

This is MaraDNS 1.0.18 with a patch to allow gnu.org to resolve again. This is the "no frills, just stay stable" branch of MaraDNS.

(2003.10.02)

maradns-1.1.18:

This is simply a new release which indicates my decision to completely rewrite the recursive portion of MaraDNS. The old recursive code is removed; I hope to have time to work on the new recursive code soon.

(2003.10.02)

maradns-1.0.19:

This is a test release which addresses a number of issues people on the list have brought up:

• Doug Sampson a pointed out that the server gives out compression errors and freezes. I have replaced the compression code with the cleaner compression code from the 1.1.xx branch; this will hopefully address this issue.
• Andrew pointed out that the zoneserver does not give out adequate error messages when there is a problem opening up a zone file, or when there is a fatal parse error in a zone file. I have added appropriate error messages to the zone server.
• Juergen Daubert provided a patch to make Mara's compile generate less warnings.
• A problem with the ORSC entries being out of date was brought up. I can not look up the current entries (being offline), but have changed all of the example files to use the ICANN entries by default, since ICANN is the only root server registry who has root servers with stable enough IPs for "set and forget" environments.
• I myself found some problems where timeouts for PTR and AAAA queries can slow down poorly-written clients. As a result, MaraDNS now has the ability to optionally instantly give dummy "not there" replies to either PTR or AAAA queries (or both).
• Some minor updates and clean-up to the documentation.

(2003.08.03)

maradns-1.1.17:

Recursive queries now work again; fixed a place which was using a 32-bit value to get a timestamp, when the code in question should have used a josa_timestamp (64-bit) value.

Additionally, it is now possible to use this program as a non-root user again.

(2003.06.13)

maradns-1.0.18:

Cleaned up and fixed a bug in the MaraDNS startup script. Now, the only prorcesses that will be killed will be bona fide MaraDNS processes.

(2003.05.30)

maradns-1.0.17:

Strnlen seems to not be a portable call after all (the BSDs don't have it); this version has a special js_strnlen call to make up for this.

(2003.04.18)

maradns-1.0.16:

This is MaraDNS 1.0.15 declared "stable" (well, as stable as 1.0.13). The only change from 1.0.15 is more debugging information in case an unreproducable bug which one user reported pops up again.

(2003.03.16)

maradns-1.0.15:

This is MaraDNS 1.0.14 with a good deal more stress testing done to the recursive resolver. There does not appear to be any obvious memory leaks; nor are there any stability issues with this release of MaraDNS. That said, I am, at present, marking the release "beta" until there is more field testing of the release.

(2003.02.28)

maradns-1.0.14:

This is not a production release of MaraDNS. This is a beta-test release of MaraDNS which has the ptr-over-cname fix from the 1.1.xx branch backported to the 1.0.xx branch. In addition, the code has been modified to no longer use strlen().

Use this code at your own risk. While I have stress-tested this code for stability, this code has not been field tested yet.

That said, it does fix the long-standing bug with correctly resolving PTR records which are CNAME referrals. I want to see some people help me beta-test this, so that I can make a more general release of this bugfix available.

(2003.02.23)

maradns-1.0.13:

This release of MaraDNS is dedicated to the seven brave astronauts who died this morning on the Columbia space shuttle:

• Willie McCool
• Rick Husband
• Kalpana Chawla
• Laurel Clark
• Michael Anderson
• David Brown
• Ilan Ramon

These people died expanding the boundaries of humanity's next frontier; may their deaths not be in vain and may humanity eventually conquer space.

This is MaraDNS 1.0.12 with a one-line bugfix for a bug the last release of MaraDNS introduced. This only matters for people who have zonefiles with no records in them (besides the SOA and NS records for the domain head).

(2003.02.01)

maradns-1.1.16:

D Richard Felker III, who knows more about the arcane mysteries of UNIX pipes than myself, showed me how to get duende to catch the stuff sent to standard error also.

Duende's manual page has been proffread and updated.

(2003.01.29)

maradns-1.1.15:

I have given up, for now, on trying to catch both stdout and stderr.

maradns-1.1.14:

The daemonizing helper has been renamed 'duende' (Spanish for 'daemon', consistant with the Spanish theme MaraDNS has, it is said like 'dwen-deh'), and now sets up a second child process which syslog()s all of maradns' various messages. Also added new timestamp format with no timestamp whatsoever to eliminate redundant timestamp when using duende helper.

(2003.01.27)

maradns-1.1.13:

MaraDNS now has a daemonizing helper which makes MaraDNS a daemon, then stays around. If either the daemonizing helper or MaraDNS (even MaraDNS 1.0.xx) gets a HUP signal, MaraDNS is restarted. If either process gets a TERM or an INT signal, both processes exit. If MaraDNS exits for any other reason besides a HUP signal, the daemonizer restarts MaraDNS.

(2003.01.25)

maradns-1.1.12:

MaraDNS now has her own timestamp code which should get rid of any Y2038 problems; on systems with 32-bit time_t, the problems are pushed forward to 2112 (and can be pushed forward indefinitely by changing only two magic constants and recompiling). Note: This means the code only works on systems with an int64_t; are there any significant Unix systems deployed which people may wish to use Mara on without int64 support at this point?

(2003.01.22)

maradns-1.1.11:

MaraDNS has support for DNS record resurrection; this means that she can now use expired records if no DNS server can be contacted for a given host name

(2003.01.17)

maradns-1.0.12:

MaraDNS with the following seven patches applied:

• Records with CNAMEs should resolve more nicely on slow links (maradns-1.0.11-incomplete.cname.patch)
• Askmara man page updated to say default DNS server address is 127.0.0.3 (maradns-1.0.11.askmara-man.patch)
• Recursive server no longer wastes time with in-bailiwick glueless NS referrals (maradns-1.0.11-bailiwick.patch)
• References to nslookup in the documentation have been removed, or changed to note that nslookup is obsolete (maradns-1.0.11.no-nslookup.patch)
• Fixed problem that Ray reported with empty zone files (zone files with only SOA and NS records) (maradns-1.0.11-raybug.patch)
• Fixed very slight problem with how the RNG was seeded, should not affect most installations of MaraDNS (maradns-1.0.11-rngseed.patch)
• Patch to work around admins who use a dot instead of an @ in the RNAME field for SOA record (maradns-1.0.11-soamail.patch)

(2003.01.15)

maradns-1.1.10:

MaraDNS is now able to bind to multiple IP addresses. In addition, I have set up a signal handler so that MaraDNS can exit with a return code of 8 when she gets a HUP signal.

The way MaraDNS binds to multiple IP addresses is by having a socket for each IP address, and a select() call which determines which socket someone connected to. Since the select() has a timeout, I was able to set up the HUP signal handler to only change a global variable.

Proper HUP signal handling will be handled by a daemonizer wrapper, which I will write next.

(2003.01.10)

maradns-1.1.09:

Some improvments to DNS-over-TCP:

• It is now possible to have permission to only forward a query over TCP without being able to transfer zone file.
• It is now possible to use an old zoneserver mararc with the new zoneserver.
• The feature has now been documented (albeit only sparsely in the mararc man page)

(2003.01.10)

maradns-1.1.08:

It is now possible to use zoneserver to forward TCP DNS queries to a UDP DNS server; this gives MaraDNS full TCP DNS support.

(2003.01.07)

maradns-1.1.07:

Not extensively tested, but following CNAMEs to PTR records now works.

(2002.12.25)

maradns-1.0.11:

This release changes the decompressor so that it works with packets which some zoneservers with large zone files generate.

There is also some minor revisions to the documentation.

(2002.12.17)

maradns-1.0.10:

This release fixes a bug with the RP definition so that the decompressor can accept a DNS packet with this RR type. In other words, this release resolves the problem Danny saw.

In addition, I have done some documentation clean-up, fixing the problems that Christian saw in the documentation; the most significant change is that the root servers for various root server networks have been updated.

(2002.11.30)

maradns-1.0.09:

This release backports the 1.1.06 improvments to the 1.0.xx branch of MaraDNS.

(2002.11.15)

maradns-1.1.06:

This realease updates the FAQ, some other information, and has some minor cleanups performed to the code.

(2002.10.24)

maradns-1.1.05:

This release has the same decompression patch which the 1.0.08 release has. In addition, this release has the test_zoneserver and test_getzone tools, just in case anyone ever sees problems with getzone again.

(2002.10.05)

maradns-1.0.08:

The release fixes the problems which getzone which Marc Schneiders and Nikos Mavroyanopoulos reported. I would like to thank both people for reporting these problems.

The problems were caused by the fact that the new decompression code did not expect the kind of packets which zoneserver generate; I have patched the new decompression code.

(2002.10.05)

maradns-1.1.04:

This release incorporates TTL aging, and Jonathan's code which makes this run as a Win9x service (note: BSD copyrighted code with the obnoxious advertising clause; we may have to do something about that before this becomes stable code)

(2002.09.01)

maradns-1.0.07:

I would like to thank Scott Cooper for working hard to find the cause of a bothersome crash which people have been reporting for about a month. This release, hopefully, fixes the crashing problem once and for all.

In addition, I have put back all of the improvments to the authoritative half which MaraDNS between 0.9.06 and 1.0.05 had; this version undoes the reverting I did for 1.0.06 (which I only did because problems started popping up two days before a two-week vacation I had in México).

(2002.08.26)

maradns-1.0.06:

Johan is seeing stability problems with MaraDNS' authoritative half which MaraDNS 0.9.06 does not have; this patch essentially reverts the authoritative half to what MaraDNS 0.9.06 had.

This hopefully fixes the stability problems; I am alas in a position to properly test this.

(2002.07.30)

maradns-1.0.05:

Simple one-line change which allows MaraDNS to compile on Cygwin. Calling this release a "stable" release.

(2002.07.28)

maradns-1.1.02:

The following improvments over MaraDNS 1.1.01:

• All improvments made for MaraDNS 1.0.04 have been integrated in to the development branch.
• A bug which caused MaraDNS 1.1.01 to seg fault has been fixed
• This version of MaraDNS now supports human-readable timestamps

(2002.07.18)

maradns-1.0.04:

MaraDNS 1.0.03 with the following patches:

• Jon's patch which allows any arbitrary size for the debug memory allocation checking hash.
• Christian's improved German translations.
• Franky's improvments to recursive.c
• Richard's changes which allow MaraDNS to compile on Cygwin (again)

(2002.07.14)

maradns-1.1.01:

The first (real) release of the new development tree. This is MaraDNS 1.0.02 with a new license (simple BSD-style license which will hopefully attract developers scared off by the "Public Domain opens you up to lawsuits" FUD) and a newly rewritten compression engine.

(2002.07.14)

maradns-1.0.03:

Franky's second release. This contains the following improvements:

• Removed the thread limit of 125 (changed it to 500 because a limit is always needed)
• Removed the Solaris-refuses-to-run-recursive limitation
• Changed the locking scheme; all memory leaks seem to vanish using the new scheme.
• Fixed some minor memory leaks

(2002.07.12)

maradns-1.0.02:

This is a release of my own. This 1.0.01 with the following changes:

• An audit was done on the decompression code. While no exploitable security problems were found, some clean up to make things more consistent was done.
• A patch which tells us the IP from which a packet the decompresser didn't like was sent.
• A patch which shows us the packet before decompressing it at a sufficiently high log level.
• A patch which fixes a bug when the last record in the DNS packet had a rdlength of 0; the decompressor previously erroneously rejected these packets.

(2002.06.30)

maradns-1.0.01:

This is Franky's first release. Mainly, some more minor memory leaks plugged.

The only changes I made were some touch ups to the documentation, and added a copy of Franky's GPG key signed with the MaraDNS signing key.

(2002.06.26)

maradns-0.5.33:

Now that 1.0.00 is released, I am deprecating the 0.5.xx branch. The only updates to this branch will be to fix bugs worth disclosing on Bugtraq. In other words, security bugs.

If anyone wants to maintain this branch of MaraDNS, let me know.

This release back ports some cleanup I did with dns/Queries.c which also applies to the 0.5.xx branch.

(2002.06.21)

maradns-1.0.00: (released as close to 2002's solstice as possible)

It's here. Happy solstice everyone!

MaraDNS 0.9.92 with the following patches:

• Yet another memleak patch
• Patch which properly initializes the header data structure
• Franky patch (modified) to fix things up
• Neale's maragen added to the tree

(2002.06.21)

maradns-0.9.92: (1.0 release candidate 2)

MaraDNS 0.9.91 with the following patches:

• Neale's patch which fixes a small problem in the install.sh script
• Franky's patch which fixes up the locks
• My patch to a possible memory leak that Franky found

(2002.06.15)

maradns-0.9.91: (1.0 release candidate 1)

MaraDNS 0.9.39 with the following patches:

• Franky's patch which fixes a problem with the thread locking (The "Small Fix" patch)
• Patch which fixes the recent rcode problems
• Patch which limits the number of threads to 125
• Patch which removes compile-time warnings
• Patch which adds note in documtation that MaraDNS doesn't handle in-bailiwick glueless NS referrals very well.

(2002.06.12)

maradns-0.9.39:

MaraDNS 0.9.38 with the following patches:

• Franky's patch which reworks some of the locks. Seems to mimimize the thread overlap problems.
• Patch which warns us if we unlock when there is no thread locked.
• Patch which plugs a memory leak in Decompress.c.

(2002.06.10)

maradns-0.9.38:

Added code to check the pthread locking status and to exit if it doesn't return a sucessful exit code.

Removed timestamp format which allows us to see the PID; this was only needed for debugging purposes.

Added comment in the MaraDNS source explaining why 200 is a reasonable maximum number of threads; that is about how many simutanious threads the underlying pthread library can handle.

(2002.06.08)

maradns-0.9.37:

This is MaraDNS 0.9.36 with the following patches:

• maradns-0.9.36.dotafter.patch: Fixes problems with the "dot after .com"
• maradns-0.9.36.decompress.patch: Fixes problems decompressing TXT records
• maradns-0.9.36.cleanup.patch: Clean up recursive code; stops potential release of lock
• maradns-0.9.36.bind.patch: MaraDNS now tries 10 times to bind to a port; should make her handle medium-to-high loads better
• maradns-0.9.36.showpid.patch: Gives new option to show_timestamp to show the process ID.

Also: Minor doc change (to document the new timestamp format); updated RPM spec, changelog, and download page

(2002.06.07)

maradns-0.9.36:

The new decompression code now works. Enabling it so people can test it.

(2002.06.05)

maradns-0.9.35:

Improved RPM spec files

The new decompression code is finished, but is not fully debugged yet (so it is disabled for this release).

Code cleanups which should resolve the infinite loops Franky is seeing

(2002.06.04)

maradns-0.9.34:

Yet another debug release; numerous small bug fixes and cleanups. MaraDNS now builds correctly when the locale of outputted messages is set to Spanish or German again. A bug where MaraDNS would crash in a certain very unusual case has been fixed.

(2002.05.31)

maradns-0.9.33:

Another debug release; numerous small bug fixes. The most notable is the plugging of what appears to be the last memory leak in the recursive code; hopefully all I have to do for 1.0.00 at this point is the new decompression code and the release candidates.

(2002.05.21)

maradns-0.9.32:

Another debug release; the code which keeps track of unallocated memory has been redone. Now memory leak tracking causes a minimum of slowdown when running MaraDNS; and the code works again.

In addition, some minor touchups have been done to the code.

(2002.05.19)

maradns-0.9.31:

Begin work on new decompression code (still using old decompression code until new code is complete)

Fixing open socket leaks in recursive code, and case-sensitivity issues in the askmara code.

(2002.05.18)

maradns-0.9.30:

Another bug fix release: Fixed bug where RRs with obscenely long TTLs would "wrap around" and end up having a negative TTL (causing the record to be promptly erased from the cache). Now the maximum TTL is two years long.

Added a little more in the way of debugging messages to try to get to the bottom of the temporary freeze-ups that Franky is seeing.

(2002.05.17)

maradns-0.9.29:

Bug fix release: Fix bug where hosts that were in bailiwick were, at times, rejected as being out of bailiwick.

(2002.05.15)

maradns-0.9.28:

Added new level of verbosity, 4, which records every time we add or remove a record from the cache

(2002.05.13)

maradns-0.9.27:

timestamp_type feature added; it is now easy for people to add new timestamp types; this seems to be a popular request ever since MaraDNS had added timestamps.

(2002.05.10)

maradns-0.5.32:

Backport of fixes to compression code to the 0.5.xx branch.

(2002.05.10)

maradns-0.9.26:

Hot fix: The compression code was completely broken in MaraDNS 0.9.25 because I accidently made an integer which needs to be signed unsigned. Fixed.

(2002.05.09)

maradns-0.9.25:

Bug fix: I finally have gotten to the bottom of the compression problems MaraDNS was having with news.com.com; this release fixes the problems, hopefully once and for all.

I also have a document which describes some of the function calls the new decompression code will have.

(2002.05.09)

maradns-0.9.24:

Bug fixes:

• DNS records with a TTL of less than 30 seconds now have a visible TTL of 30 seconds. This is to work around stub resolvers (such as Mozilla's stub resolver) which can not resolve RRs with extremely short TTLs.
• Lines which are too long in mararc files now return a properly formatted error message.

I have begun work on the new decompressor; however no changes have been made to the actual compression code yet. However, there are now documents that specify how the new decompression will work and header files which the new decompression code will use.

(2002.05.08)

maradns-0.9.23:

Bug fix: The mara.startup script now points to the same file location as the default install.location. Note that the startup script needs to be changed if moving the install location.

Updated spec and patch file to build RPM for the current MaraDNS build; it has been too long since the last RPM release.

Trivia: Cinco de Mayo celebrates a battle that Mexico won in 1862 in Puebla, Mexico (I visited the site of the battle several times when I was down there; it is a beautiful eucalyptus forest, having a beautiful fountain and planetarium) against the French. As it turned out, the French won the war, but Mexico won that one battle, which has been celebrated since then. Also, with the exception of Puebla, Cinco de Mayo is not a big holiday in Mexico; only in the US.

(2002.05.05; Cinco de Mayo)

maradns-0.9.22:

Created list of issues to be resolved before the 1.0 release of MaraDNS; once these are done, I will start a 0.99.x branch; which I will publically announce.

Added kludge to work around unreproducable problems where the compressor can not always compress a DNS packet

Added link to glassary entries in the tutorial every time the tutorial intoduces a new term.

(2002.05.04)

maradns-0.9.21:

Fixed bug where the minimum TTL for CNAME entires could not be separately set.

Added stub resolver which generates unix timestamps as bogus A records; used for testing.

Added FAQ entry about MaraDNS' time stamp format.

(2002.05.02)

maradns-0.9.20:

Changed udperror so that it will tell us from where udperror was called; this will hopefully help me fix the news.com.com problems MaraDNS is having.

Added time stamp to some logged requests and added source IP logging.

Added the ability for a remote query to get MaraDNS' internal timestamp; this is only enabled at obscenely high levels of debug_msg_level, since it is a security risk (there are attacks which are more effective if we know the target's clock value).

Minimum TTL and Minimum TTL for CNAME records is now user-customizable.

(2002.04.24)

maradns-0.9.19:

Added download.html to maradns.org web pages which are converted here; this allows the pages which change most frequently on maradns.org to be changed offline.

Added FAQ Q&A about a problem that someone was having; hopefully the next user with the problem will be able to use this information.

Added incomplete ej2dbk converter which converts from ej to docbook. This is incomplete; after MaraDNS 1.0 I will add code which closes open tags and what not so the generated docbook is 100% legal.

(2002.04.16)

maradns-0.9.18:

Fixed a bug in askmara where non-ASCII characters were not properly replaced by escape sequences.

Updated EJ documentation tools so that they can now generate webpages in the same format as the web pages on www.maradns.org.

(2002.03.25)

maradns-0.9.17:

Added a minor new feature (since it was trivial to add, and since it is a feature which greatly expands the functionality that MaraDNS has): upstream_servers. This allows MaraDNS to be used to contact other recursive servers when run in recursive mode.

Further bugfixing and revision of the debug.hostname tool; it now will not get stuck in endless loops trying to resolve a given hostname.

(2002.03.14)

maradns-0.9.16:

Converted encoding of all files in the MaraDNS source tree from ISO 8859-1 to UTF-8 (with the exception of one file in the utf8 directory which is supposed to be ISO 8859-1 data). Fixed EJ tools so that they can work on a current (as of early 2002; RedHat 7.2) Linux system using the UTF-8 encoding without undue hassle.

Fixed bug in debug.hostname where it would not resolve host names in certain circumstances.

(2002.03.12)

maradns-0.9.15:

Added '-n' option to askmara so askmara can send the same kinds of DNS queries that recursive DNS servers send out (DNS queries that do not ask for recursion)

Fixed bug where 'make install' would overwrite /etc/rc.d/init.d/maradns

Changed maxprocs limit to 200 and made it so exceeding maxprocs does not cause MaraDNS to stop; instead maxprocs is reset to 200.

(2002.03.06)

maradns-0.9.14:

Rewrote debug.hostname tool; this will allow me to set up the testbed to find the more obscure MaraDNS bugs.

(2002.03.03)

maradns-0.9.13:

Fixed bug where debug_msg_level could only be changed if recursion was enabled.

Changed stress testing simulation to simulate network lag in processing DNS replies.

Made maxprocs have a hard limit of 100; making maxprocs have a value of 400 results in MaraDNS hanging on Linux systems.

(2002.02.25)

maradns-0.9.12:

Cleanups performed so that all files to be audited to be compiled with -Wall enabled without generating any warnings.

Fixed ej2txt so that it no longer generates utf-8 quotes.

(2002.02.19)

maradns-0.9.11:

Fixed bug where CNAME records obtained from the cache would not work with stub resolvers, since the code changed the question in the question section of the reply.

'make debug' now works again.

(2002.02.11)

maradns-0.9.10:

Fixed bug of case where there is a CNAME record, and something happened when trying to get an A record for the CNAME record. Previously, MaraDNS would think the CNAME record had no A record until the CNAME record was purged from the cache. Now, MaraDNS is smart enough to store CNAME records with an A record of "a 'no such host' reply was found when we looked for an A record"; and CNAME records without any corresponding A record only stay in the cache for 30 seconds.

If data is already in the cache for a given record, and the data has not expired, then there is no need to spawn a thread to process the record; now MaraDNS no longer does this. This should result in greater stability and less memory usage, since many operating systems do threads poorly.

askmara now can have a user-defined timeout

compile flags changed from -g to -O2

(2002.02.11)

maradns-0.9.09:

Added data_structures.ej document, which describes the internal data structures that MaraDNS uses.

Updated the mararc man page to describe the new debug_msg_level variable

Added files needed to make MaraDNS RPM files in the build/ directory.

(2002.01.27)

maradns-0.9.08:

Fixed another bug in the ej2man script; it now correctly zaps blockquotes inside ul.../ul lists.

Made changelog an ej-compatible document; this allows the changelog to be an ASCII text file instead of an HTML file which a lot of UNIX-heads will prefer.

Verified that MaraDNS 0.9.07 compiles on Darwin (a.k.a. Mac OS X) "out of the box"; this means that MaraDNS now compiles "out of the box" on Solaris; Linux; and Darwin. It also should compile on Cygwin; alas I do not have a working cygwin setup to verify this on. Between these four OSes, we cover all of the major flavors of UNIX: Linux is a little of everything; Solaris is a "System V" UNIX; Darwin is a BSD UNIX clone; and Cygwin is a pure POSIX implementation.

(2002.01.25)

maradns-0.9.07:

Added new runtime parameter which can be seen when debug messages are enabled: The number of elements in the DNS cache.

Added Makefile template which is a generate Makefile for systems which do not have flock() support; make this Makefile the default Makefile (instead of the Linux Makefile).

(2002.01.24)

maradns-0.9.06:

Fixed bug in maradns startup script where the script would not correctly restart the MaraDNS processes.

New mararc parameter added: debug_msg_level; this sets the level of information we can get about a running MaraDNS process by sending special DNS queries to MaraDNS.

(2002.01.23)

maradns-0.9.05:

Revamping of the build process; placing most build-related files in a directory named "build"; MaraDNS now compiles and installs cleanly on Solaris; MaraDNS now has a system startup script which MaraDNS invokes at system startup time.

(2002.01.21)

maradns-0.9.04:

Another documentation fix. Added new EJ tag: DTWIDTH

This version now compiles on Solaris; and should compile on Darwin.

(2002.01.18)

maradns-0.9.03:

Integrated Christian's spelling corrections and German translations in to the MaraDNS documentation.

Minor bugfixes with the ej2man script.

(2002.01.17)

maradns-0.9.02:

Document reorganization: MaraDNS now uses a new document format, EJ (which I created myself for MaraDNS documentation usage), which can be converted in to HTML documents, text documents, or in to man page sources. By having a stramlined documentation format, MaraDNS' documentation will be easier to manage, and easier to translate.

Since the ej format allows other files to be embedded in documents, this eliminates having to revise multiple versions of the same document

(2002.01.16)

maradns-0.5.31:

Backporting of compression security patch to the MaraDNS 0.5.xx branch.

(2002.01.10)

maradns-0.9.01:

Fixed security problem with the compression code which I found when performing an audit on the code. Other cleanup of the compression code.

Updated the French documentation.

Added some more information to the MaraDNS tutorial.

Added (currently untested) Darwin (a.k.a. MacOS X) support.

(2002.01.10)

maradns-0.9.00:

Plugged some memory leaks in the recursive code.

Added Thomas Seyrat's French translation of the documentation

Completed the tutorial

Fixed bug where the zoneserver needed the mararc file specified to start.

Updated documentation

(2002.01.06)

maradns-0.8.99a:

OK, so I was wrong about the first post-0.8.99 release being MaraDNS 0.9.00.

This is simply MaraDNS 0.8.99 with a 2-line patch which fixes a problem where MaraDNS 0.8.99 would crash.

(2001.12.17)

maradns-0.8.99:

Since I found a some security problems when working on the MaraDNS-0.9.00 release, I am making this release available which appears to addresses the security problems.

Changes since 0.8.35:

• Jaakko's patch, in a modified form, has been applied.
• Documentation touchups.
• Askmara timeout increased.
• Solaris recursive support dropped until I can get my hands on my Solaris CDs (and a PC to install Solaris on) in January (Solaris still has bugs which do not exist in Linux).
• Updated test bed to handle NS referrals which point nowhere
• Found and fixed a bug where MaraDNS would not close UDP connections when sendto returned an error
• Fixed a problem that mhash_put_data had, where the DNS cache could become inconsistant in certain circumstances.
• Fixed two other spots in recursive.c (in two of the add_closer routines) which could have potentially caused inconsistant data in the cache.
• Got remove.rng to work again.

I have changed the version number to maradns-0.8.99 to reflect the fact that the next release will almost certaintly be MaraDNS 0.9.00.

(2001.12.08)

maradns-0.8.35:

Made the stress tests in sqa/testbed more extensive; they now crash recursive MaraDNS versions up to and including 0.8.33.

Found and plugged some memory leaks that MaraDNS had.

Verified that MaraDNS can handle the stress tests--MaraDNS was able to handle 80.000 queries without crashing, and without growing after 10.000 or so queries were processed.

(2001.11.17)

maradns-0.8.34:

Found and removed another crash-inducing bug.

Modified askmara so that it generates somewhat csv1-compatible output. Also modified the debug.hostname tool so that it can handle the new askmara output.

(2001.11.16)

maradns-0.8.33:

Yipee! No, I'm not talking about the fact that the evil Taliban are no longer in control of Kabul. I am talking about the fact that I found and removed another crasher bug in MaraDNS.

I hope that this is the last crasher bug. Time to cross my fingers.

(2001.11.13)

maradns-0.8.32:

This is the third beta test candidate for the recursive MaraDNS, since people are reporting serious stability problems with MaraDNS 0.8.30 and MaraDNS 0.8.31. While I am unable to reporduce the problems offline, I was able to reproduce the problem online (but only intermittently), and found some iffy-looking code which may be the root of the problem.

This program passes all offline stress tests.

Also added an entry to the FAQ which answers an unrelated question posted to the mailing list, and added the changelog to the list of files placed in the MaraDNS doc directory when a 'make install' is performed.

(2001.11.13)

maradns-0.8.31:

This is the second beta test candidate for the recursive MaraDNS, since I found some bugs after releasing MaraDNS 0.8.30. See the release notes for MaraDNS 0.8.30 for more on the beta starus of MaraDNS.

Looking through the source code of the revamped hash structure, I found a routine which was not revamped. This would cause a bug in the case of having two or more zone files which happen to hash to the same value--only one of the zone files would load. Fixed. I also deleted some routines which were based on the old hash structure.

I have modified MaraDNS so the csv1 hash no longer needs to be initialized, since the csv1 hash does nothing but waste memory in recursive-only MaraDNS configurations.

I have added another parameter: timeout_seconds, which is how long to wait for a remote DNS server to reply. This is mainly useful for slow networks which need more than two seconds to get a reply from a DNS server. Note that the larger this is, the slower MaraDNS answers queries when a DNS server doesn't respond to DNS requests.

In addition, I have begun work on the tutorial, which currently describes how to use MaraDNS in recursive mode, and gives an overview of DNS.

(2001.11.12)

maradns-0.8.30:

This is a beta test candidate for the recursive version of MaraDNS. Which means that the only changes I will make between now and the first beta release are essential bug fixes (e.g. bugs not mentioned in the man page), and a basic DNS tutorial, since I have received two emails of the form "I don't know how to do this DNS stuff, and could use some help".

The bad news is that, because of the excess of greedy lawyers in the US, I have added the legal disclaimer to all of the man pages for MaraDNS, and, in addition, the legal disclaimer appears when MaraDNS is started.

The good news is that it is possible to have MaraDNS not show the legal disclaimer when opening up; MaraDNS tells you how to do this when showing the disclaimer.

The better news is that I have done a major revamping of the MaraHash structure. This structure is a structure that can both handle records being added, and being removed from the hash. MaraDNS, as far as I can tell from my offline tests, is now a great deal more stable as a result.

In addition, I found another memory leak in the recursive code, which I have plugged.

I have also performed some more documentation touch-ups.

(2001.11.10)

maradns-0.8.29:

OK, this is a "band-aid" release of MaraDNS. As I was debugging the problem with MaraDNS crashing with the new custodian, I discovered that the hash code is fundamentally broken. Hence, I need to a major revamp to the hash code. In short, the hash needs to have each hash spot point to a linked list of elements.

In the meantime, I performed a band-aid fix to the hash that, while not fixing the problem, makes the problem slightly less bothersome. This is an interim release until I can really fix the problem this weekend.

Updated the FAQ to reflect the slightly changed procedure for joinging the MaraDNS mailing list ("subscribe" now has to be in the subject line when one wants to join the list).

(2001.11.08)

maradns-0.8.28:

I fixed a bug in the fila-handling code where chains of records were not being correctly put at the top of the list.

I am still receiving reports that MaraDNS freezes up after running for a while. I am unable to reproduce this problem. I have carefully checked the recursive code for potential deadlocks, finding none.

I suspect that there is a certain query which causes thie problem. Theirfore, I have added the ability for MaraDNS to log all queries she receives in human-readable format if verbose_level is three or higher.

While this results in some really huge logs, this will hopefully allow me to pin down exactly which query causes MaraDNS to lock up, allowing me to see where MaraDNS locks up, allowing me to resolve the issue.

(2001.10.31)

maradns-0.8.27:

I have added a lot of code which creates a circular linked list. This circular linked list is used by the custodian to erase elements from the cache which have not been recently accessed.

The psudo-random number generator has been renamed to 'rng', and modified to be a hash-only primitive. MaraDNS no longer has any code which can be directly used for cryptographic purposes. Of course, the compression function of the hash/prng is invertable, and can be used as a stream cipher, but such is the case for all secure hash functions and secure PRNGs.

Added a list of features I will not add to the 1.x release of MaraDNS to the MaraDNS man page.

The default max_glueless_level is now 10, because some real-world hosts need a max_glueless_level this high.

(2001.10.31)

maradns-0.8.26:

I have updated the 0QuickStart file to be current with the present state of MaraDNS.

The Linux makefile now supports "make debug", useful for making a build with verbose debugging output.

Now that I have some decent *roff documentation, I have done some improvments to the formatting of the man pages. Not only do the man pages look a little more attractive on the tty terminal, the man pages also look good when made postscript man pages (troff -man -Tps foo.1 > foo.ps).

In addition, since the -man macros are not documented anywhere on the internet, I have somewhat deciphered the tmac.an macro set, and written up some documentation describing all of the -man macros. (2001.10.15)

maradns-0.8.25:

I have done an audit and an overhaul of how MaraDNS calls locks in the recursive code. Hopefully, this will resolve the issues with MaraDNS freezing after running for a few days.

In addition, the recursive resolver now is better able to handle instances where a NS record points to a list of IPs.

More documentation updates. The man page for maradns now has a guide on how to set up a firewall to allow maradns packets through, and a list of known issues where MaraDNS breaks the DNS spec.

The crypto-emasculated version of MaraDNS no longer binds the source port of outgoing UDP queries. This is because the underlying OS may generate secure source port numbers when the source port is not specified in the application.

(2001.10.12)

maradns-0.8.24:

I have created a tool, called debug.hostname in the tools directory, which gives a very verbose trace trying to look up a given hostname. This will hopefully help me to debug and fix problematical hostnames.

I have also created a tool, called faq2man which converts the HTML faq in to a format suitable for embedding in to a man page. This makes the FAQ section of the MaraDNS man page more attractive

I have made the maximum glueless level user-configurable, since it looks like some hosts do not resolve with the old hard-wired default of 4. I have also made the maximum number of queries performed total in a recursive lookup user-configurable

I have added more helpful error messages which tell the user what to fix in their mararc file if MaraDNS can not initialize the DNS cache or the random number seed. The init_cache() and init_crypto() failed error messages should not be visible any more.

Documentation update: There is now a man page description of the mararc file. The CREDITS and FAQ files have been updated, in addition to almost all man pages. For example, I have gotten rid of the two or three pages of ugly troff syntax that Perl's pod2man program generates in the Man pages which had this.

make run without ./configure now works again.

Since MaraDNS used to act in a different manner than Python 1.5.2 with respect to multiple declations of the same index of the same dictionary variable, I have changed MaraDNS so that she exits with a fatal error should this occur, showing the user the line with the problem.

Made the error message which pops up when a csv1 zone file pointer is incorrectly formatted more helpful.

There was a minor security weakness with the PRNG which would pop up if the seed was a fixed file, two copies of MaraDNS used the same seed file, and the two files were started at the same time. This has been fixed. The seed is now exclusive-ored with the process ID before generating numbers.

More trimming of unused routines in the AES code. The AES code now only supports encryption with a 128-bit key and block size in ECB mode--the only way we use AES in MaraDNS.

For people who can not legally have any kind of cryptography in their code (French citizens, etc.), there is now a script in the tools directory, remove.aes which removes all crypto code. Note that, while the main MaraDNS suite will still compile after running this, some programs in the tools/misc, test and sqa directories will no longer compile. make still works, of course. Note that removing this code does make MaraDNS more suspectable to a spoofing attack.

(2001.10.08)

maradns-0.8.23:

Star records which point to CNAMEs are now completely supported.

Christophe Colle pointed out that the reason MaraDNS was leaking memory when making threads on Solaris was because MaraDNS was not using pthread_attr_destroy. Hopefully, adding this will make MaraDNS not leak on Solaris.

Improvment to the "make install" process: The default configuration looks for local man pages in /usr/local/share/man if /usr/local/man doesn't exist. This is to get around some Linux distributions which don't have /usr/local/man

Minor security tweak to the routine that generates the 16-bit secure psudo-random number.

The AES hasher now correctly generates a 128-version of the hash specified in Bram Cohen's proposed AES hash standard. Thanks to Bram for providing test vectors for the 256-version of the hash.

maradns --version now also includes the build system and date

(2001.09.27)

maradns-0.5.30:

Two bugs have been fixed: A bug where a UDP error message normally did not have the correct query ID, and a bug where, in certain cases, MaraDNS would return a UDP error instead of a SOA "not there" reply.

Also, the documentation has been updated. (2001.09.25)

maradns-0.8.22:

Document reorganization: I am starting to move the formats of the data files to separate man pages. This will make each man page smaller and more convenient to use.

Improved CNAME support: MaraDNS now has partial support for star records that point to a CNAME.

Less code in the aes directory: I now have a program which generates the AES tables during the build process, since the code to generate those tables is a good deal smaller than the tables themselves. There is no slowdown, since it is a one-time calculation done during the build process.

maradns --version (and zoneserver --version) now do the right thing: Print out the version number and exit

The installer now removes the zoneserver and the maradns server before installing the new ones to get around the "text file busy" problem.

There was a subtle bug with returning "not there" SOA replies and case insensitivity. This bug has now been fixed. This bugfix also needs to be folded back in to the 0.5.xx branch.

It is now possible to change the class of the query with the getzone client if possible. Next: Document this new feature. (2001.09.24)

maradns-0.8.21:

First, the bad news.

There is a known issue with MaraDNS having memory leaks when used as a recursive nameserver on the Solaris operating system. This problem does not exist in Linux. Since I do not have ready access to a Solaris box to develop on, I can not resolve this issue. Until a Solaris developer steps up to bat and fixes this for me, I am forced to disable recursive DNS serving under Solaris.

I should have ready access to a Solaris again in December, when I return to the United States. I have CDs of Solaris eight up there, in addition to friends with Solaris boxes.

Now, the good news.

I have updated the example mararc files to be consistant with the documentation. In particular, I now have two "out of the box" working mararc files. One for authoritative name serving, and another for recursive nameserving.

I have also updated the installer script to return an error if the directories to put the MaraDNS files in do not exist. In addition, MaraDNS will install all of the MaraDNS documentation in the directory specified by the variable DOCS in install.locations.

Finally, I have updated the FAQ, the man pages, the mararc.format documentation, and am working on making separate man pages which describe csv1 zone files and the mararc file. (2001.09.20)

maradns-0.8.20:

When doing some tests with the AES engine in MaraDNS, I found that I inadvertently created a minor security problem w.r.t. ASCII nulls in the AES key. Basically, an "out of the box" MaraDNS configuration had a 1 in 16 chance of the aes key not having a full 128 bits of entropy.

I also corrected a minor fault in the aes128 hasher (it did not previously fully follow the spec, since it counted bytes, not bits), a minor fault with the top-level Makefile (which did not clean up tools/misc with a make clean), and did some minor manpage clean-up. (2001.09.18)

maradns-0.8.19:

Updated the CREDITS file. If you have contributed to MaraDNS in any way, no matter how small, and are not in this file, please let me know so I can credit you.

Removed references to routines in the aes/ directory which MaraDNS and aes128 do not use. The aes code is now encrypt-only.

Added a test, based on Brian Gladman's AES reference code, which verified that the AES routines are working correctly.

Some cleanup, corrections, and revisions of the man pages. I figured out how to turn off hyphenation and justifaction for man pages, and have hence disabled these in all of the MaraDNS man pages.

Streamlining of the build process: ./configure; make; make install now does "the right thing". In addition, make uninstall also automagically does the right thing.

Important: make install now, by default, installs files in /usr/local/sbin, /usr/local/bin, and man pages in /usr/local/man. If one has previous installs of MaraDNS in other locations, please change the install.sh script to the desired location of the MaraDNS files. (2001.09.17)

maradns-0.8.18:

Added code which keeps track of allocated memory, allowing me to hunt down and eliminate memory leaks. Found four memory leaks in the recursive code:

• in_bailiwick did not properly destroy the tempory string "get"
• When a negative answer was given, query_nameserver did not correctly deallocate some temporary strings
• recurse_call did not correctly deallocate the temporary string used for glueless queries
• The code that set up the root nameservers in the cache had two strings which were used to help set up the root nameservers. This strings were not deallocated after being used. This was a one-time, and not continuous, leak.

(2001.09.15)

maradns-0.8.17:

Incorperated a modified form of Franky's patch which adds the max_tcp_procs kvar to the program. Added some non-DNS releated tools to the "tools" directory. Clean up of the documentation. (2001.08.28)

maradns-0.8.16:

More regression testing: Added test where it sends an answer to a server. If the server replies, this is considered an error condition. Cleaned up the recursive code (got rid of some XXX to dos): Mainly, MaraDNS sends an error if she can not spawn a thread. Documentation reorganized. (2001.08.16)

maradns-0.8.15:

Made an 'asktest' program which will be used for regression testing. (2001.08.15)

maradns-0.8.14:

Added support for a counter that counts the children in the Zone server. (2001.08.13)

maradns-0.8.13:

Askmara doesn't display debug messages which can mess up terminals to the end user any more.

When an element in the cache is overwritten, the new data is now added to the cache.

New feature: MaraDNS can now blacklist spammer-friendly DNS servers.

(2001.08.12)

maradns-0.8.12:

Fixed bug in udperror which caused it to spit back the wrong query ID.

Added code to use a counter to count the number of threads. If we have more than maxprocs threads going on at the same time, we refuse to launch a thread.

Cached data now will go through round-robin rotates.

MaraDNS now compiles again when the locale is set to Spanish (though I still need more Spanish translations. Maybe when I am in México, I can get help down there) (2001.08.11)

maradns-0.5.29:

Backported some bug fixes with zone file handling back to the "stable" authoritative-only branch of MaraDNS. (2001.08.10)

maradns-0.8.11:

Improved handling of CNAME records in the cache. BSD-dependent routines (which are currently unused in MaraDNS) are not compiled if we are compiling on a Solaris box. (2001.08.08)

maradns-0.8.10:

I have redone the makefile in the rijndael directory, some some makes (notably, the one NetBSD has) did not like the original Makefile. Marked some unreproducable bugs as unreproducable. (2001.08.07)

maradns-0.8.09:

After much work (handling lame delegations better and fixing a bug in substring_issame_case), I have managed to get the host name linuxemu.retrofaction.com to resolve.

Completely unreleated to MaraDNS, I have added a SirCam filter to the tools directory. (2001.08.03)

maradns-0.8.08:

More bug swatting:

• The problem that was causing www.fairytale-abuse.com to not resolve is fixed. (Better lame delegation handling)
• The problem that was causing www.cs.cmu.edu and www.roaringpenguin.com to not resolve is fixed (Better case sensitivity handling)

(2001.07.28)

maradns-0.8.07:

Fixed the zoneserver so it too only answers questions. Fixed two bugs in the getzone client: One where it would handle MX records incorrectly, another where it would hand the root zone incorrectly (this bug was actually in the Queries.c file). (2001.07.27)

maradns-0.8.06:

We now check to make sure we only answer questions. (2001.07.18)

maradns-0.8.05:

Added support for multiple root name servers. Also changed the example mararc file to have the root servers for eight different top level domain registries listed. (2001.07.16)

maradns-0.5.27:

Back porting bug fixes to the authoritative-only branch of MaraDNS. (2001.07.15)

maradns-0.8.04:

MaraDNS now sucessfully compiles on Solaris. Thanks to Franky Van Liedekerke for providing the pointers on how to do this, and to Danny for access to a Solaris machine to compile MaraDNS on. (2001.07.14)

maradns-0.8.03:

Solaris support added, but does not fully work, added disclaimer, improved code which drops group privileges. (2001.07.13)

maradns-0.8.02:

Another bug fix: If a zone did not have a record of a given type at the "top" of the zone, MaraDNS would attempt to perform recursion instead of returning a SOA record in the authority section. Fixed. Also needs to be fixed in the 0.5.xx branch. Thanks to D Richard Felker III for finding the bug. (2001.07.10)

maradns-0.8.01:

Touch up bug fix: MaraDNS failed to close open file descripters when reading zone files. Fixed. Also needs to be fixed in the 0.5.xx series. Thanks to Boris Manojlovic for finding the bug. (2001.07.09)

maradns-0.5.26:

Fixed a couple of long-standing bugs found while debugging the recursive version of MaraDNS:

• Fixed a subtle bug in the DNS compression code that would only show up in certain rare circumstances.
• Fixed a bug in the handling of ANY DNS queries.

(2001.07.08)

maradns-0.8.00:

This is the first alpha release of the recursive nameserver. I fixed a bug in the compression code, and fixed another bug which was causing problems with glueless name server entries. (2001.07.08)

maradns-0.7.22:

www.monty.de now successfully resolves; fixed bug where the custodian could potentially erase the root name server entry, making MaraDNS non-functional as a root nameserver until restarted. (2001.07.07)

maradns-0.7.21:

Type ANY queries now work for recursive queries. Finally. (2001.07.06)

maradns-0.7.20:

Another late night double feature MaraDNS show. There was a really nasty bug which Jaakko pointed out to me. I found the culprit, and fixed the bug. (2001.07.04)

maradns-0.7.19:

Begun work on some of the infastructure changes needed to make MaraDNS sucessfully resolve recursive ANY queries. Added maradns_gid support. Other pieces of code cleanup, primarily better handling of RR_ANY when acting as an authoritative nameserver (should I fold these changes in to a 0.5.26 release eventually?). (2001.07.04)

maradns-0.7.18:

Re-arranging of the engine that returns an answer from the cache. We check the cache expire of a "host not here" reply. Updated the documentation so that it is the 0.5.25 documentation with the recursive stuff added as needed. (2001.07.01)

maradns-0.7.17:

We now choose a random DNS server to query when we are looking for an answer. (2001.07.01)

maradns-0.7.16:

Updated documentation to include information on how to set up a recursive nameserver. Fixed bug where multiple levels of CNAME indirection were not being properly followed. It is now possible to go to www.imdb.com or groups.yahoo.com (both cases of multiple levels of CNAME indirection). (2001.06.30)

maradns-0.7.15:

I have added support for negative caching: If a given host name does not exist, the program sends a "not here" to the stub resolver. I also fixed a bug which was causing out-of-bailiwock queries to not work. (Having to do with the case-sensitivity issue). Next: Getting www.monty.de to work, caching ANY replies. (2001.06.28)

maradns-0.7.14:

MaraDNS now works as a recursive nameserver again. The root nameserver is now user-configurable. CNAME returns queries in a form that a stub resolver can now understand. (2001.06.25)

maradns-0.7.13:

After much tinkering with the code, I have managed to make it so that a CNAME record in the cache returns the corresponding A record (note: only one A record!) along with the CNAME record. This should allow hosts like www.yahoo.com to work when this is used as a stub resolver. (2001.06.24)

maradns-0.7.12:

More work done on plugging memory leaks. Working on code that will determine the ip for a given CNAME record, since stub resolvers are not smart enough to do a second A query themselves when they see a CNAME record. Also some minor cleanups that Franky Van Liedekerke suggested. (2001.06.22)

maradns-0.7.11:

Finished work on the custodian. Now, I need to make sure the custodian works. Also fixed CNAME support so it now works, plugged a couple more memory leaks, and revised the offline testbed to have a CNAME record. (2001.06.21)

maradns-0.7.10:

Bigfixes: I have plugged some memory leaks, and added code which will (hopefully) allow recursive queries to cname records to work. I have also done some more work on the "custodian" code. (2001.06.21)

maradns-0.7.09:

Bugfix release: MaraDNS now closes the sockets that she opens when performing recursive queries. This stops the open sockets from piling up. Also, I have begun work on the "custodian" code: Code the reduces the number of elements in the cache when the user-defined cache runs low on space. (2001.06.20)

maradns-0.7.08:

I have made the RNG truly random, and I have added code to the resolution algorithm which allows it to perform recursive queries when the only authoritative records are NS delegation records. Also, updates to the todo list. Changed cc to gcc in all the makefiles to make MaraDNS more Solaris-friendly. (2001.06.20)

maradns-0.7.07:

I have added ACLs which limit who is allowed to make recursive queries. I have also begun work on making the random number seed truly random. (2001.06.19)

maradns-0.7.06:

I have updated the non-recursive code to use code from MaraDNS 0.5.25, which adds a number of features from there (round robin rotation, etc.) I have alos made a list of things which need to be done before I can make this a beta candidate for a 1.0 release. In addition, the code now makes sure that the query ID we receive is the same one we sent out. I have also started work on a CREDITS file, updated the FAQ, and added a couple of interesting (if not MaraDNS-specific) Perl scripts to the archive. (2001.06.17)

maradns-0.7.05:

The DNS server now has a psudo-random number generator which uses the Rijndael algorithm. This PRNG randomizes both the query ID and (I believe) the source port of any and all DNS queries. This PNRG now needs to become secure (by setting up either a random or a user-defined Rijndael key) (2001.06.16)

maradns-0.7.04:

There were some bugs in the RR expire code. I have found those bugs, fixed them, and now cache expirery should work. (2001.06.12)

maradns-0.7.03:

This release has implemented the ability to expire records from the cache. All Name server records have a fixed expire of 1 day (this can be changed by changing one #define in recursive.c), but all other records have an expire time based on the TTL of the record. I have not yet tested DNS RR expire. (2001.06.11)

maradns-0.7.02:

Milestone: This is the first release of MaraDNS that works as a recursive nameserver with the real root nameservers. Fix: Changing only the case of the first nameserver, add negative caching, then start adding security (good RNG for the query ID and source port, recursive ACL), then start making the root servers customizable (including being able to have different TLDs have different root servers). (2001.06.11)

maradns-0.7.01:

Beginning work on making MaraDNS both case-insensitive and able to preserve case. (2001.06.06)

maradns-0.7.00:

Albert Prats kindly provided Spanish translations for various text files. To get MaraDNS to compile in Spanish instead of English, type in ./locale.es before compiling MaraDNS.

MaraDNS now can handle gluelessness. I am bumping up the minor version number to reflect that MaraDNS now has recursive nameserving capabilities, albeit without some security features. Next: Work on cache flushing and security. (2001.06.03)

maradns-0.6.21:

Now, if one of the IP nameservers is bad, we will try the next nameserver in the chain. Next: Add the code to handle out-of-bailiwick nameservers (2001.06.01)

maradns-0.6.20:

Two big improvments: 1) The recursive resolver can now handle multiple A records (MaraDNS deliberately ignores NS and AR records. Note that it is a good idea to give out the corresponding A record for a CNAME record [To do]) 2) There is now code which makes a local copy