MaraDNS changelog
maradns-1.4.13:
This is the legacy branch of MaraDNS. Please upgrade to MaraDNS
2.
* Deadwood updated to Deadwood 3.2.03d
(2013.11.28)
maradns-1.4.12:
This is the legacy branch of MaraDNS. Please upgrade to MaraDNS
2.
* Maximum TTL now one day to eliminate ghost domain-style
attacks.
(2012.03.17)
maradns-1.4.11:
This is the legacy branch of MaraDNS. Please upgrade to MaraDNS
2.
* Deadwood updated to 3.2.02
(2012.03.11)
maradns-1.4.10:
The hash compression function has better collision resistance.
(2012.01.13)
maradns-1.4.09:
Hotfix: The hash randomization now has 31 bits of entropy, and
the hash does a fairly good job of choosing a random hash
bucket again.
(2011.12.30)
maradns-1.4.08:
Security hotfix: Hash randomization added to MaraDNS 1's
recursive resolver. MaraDNS 2 is not impacted (it's been using
a randomized hash since 2007).
(2011.12.29)
maradns-1.4.07:
This is a legacy release of MaraDNS. All patches are backports
of MaraDNS 2.0 bug fixes.
* A typo fix for fetchzone
* AXFR-over-UDP packets are now correctly marked "truncated"
* It is now possible to have the '/' in hostnames
* Fix for Debian bug #607739: Hostname shown when
complaining about DDIP issues
* AngelD's issue with zone transfers when there are a lot of
FQDN4 records fixed.
* Karim's issue with '/read' directive fixed
(2011.11.11)
maradns-1.4.06:
This is a stable branch of MaraDNS.
* Fix for CVE-2011-0520
* Deadwood updated to 3.0.02
(2011.01.28)
maradns-1.4.05:
This is a stable branch of MaraDNS.
* Deadwood updated to the stable 3.0.01 release.
* MicroDNS now returns "not implemented" when given an EDNS
packet
* FAQ updated.
(2010.09.25)
maradns-1.4.04:
This is the stable branch of MaraDNS.
* Bugfix: NAPTR records now work when ~ is used to separate
records
* NAPTR records now documented
* Bugfix: ANY queries now correctly work with NS referrals
* Example IPv6 addresses now use RFC-4193 compliant IPs
* Website updated to point out that Deadwood is now feature
complete and ready for beta-testing
* Some updates to the SQA regressions
* Deadwood updated to Deadwood 2.9.02
* Windows-only mkSecretTxt program added (*NIX users can
just type in "dd if=/dev/urandom of=secret.txt bs=64
count=1"; this gives Windows the same ability).
(2010.07.31)
maradns-1.4.03:
This is the stable branch of MaraDNS.
* Patch fixing bug where an improperly terminated domain
name in a csv2 zone file terminated MaraDNS.
* Documentation for reject_aaaa and reject_ptr (which have
been around since 2003 but never documented until now)
added.
* Other documentation updates
(2010.02.02)
maradns-1.3.07.10:
This is the previous stable branch of MaraDNS.
* Backport of patch fixing bug where an improperly
terminated domain name in a csv2 zone file terminated
MaraDNS.
(2010.02.02)
maradns-1.4.02:
This is the stable branch of MaraDNS.
* Documentation updated for 1.4 MaraDNS release.
* RPM spec file now builds RPM in CentOS (RHEL) 5.
* csv2_default_zonefile was accidently broken in MaraDNS
1.4.01; fixed.
* Updates to the SQA regressions; we now try some
regressions that intermittently fail in CentOS 5 up to
three times before giving up.
(2010.01.08)
maradns-1.4.01:
This is the stable branch of MaraDNS.
* The * character is no longer allowed in zone names.
* Deadwood updated to Deadwood 2.4.10
* Documentation update
(2009.12.21)
maradns-1.3.14:
This is the development branch of MaraDNS.
* William Summers submitted a patch to fix OpenBSD compile
issues.
* Deadwood 2 updated to Deadwood-2.04 (with the tools also
in MaraDNS removed and the INSTALL document revised
accordingly)
* Workaround for AFNIC (.fr) registration issues added
* GCC 4.3.2 compile-time warnings removed
* Milan Kupcevic added dns_port support to zoneserver
* stdint.h now used for fixed-sized integers; this should
make MaraDNS easier to compile on unsupported platforms.
(2009.08.04)
maradns-1.3.13:
This is the development branch of MaraDNS.
* private_ips test revamped to work in a stock CentOS 5.2
install
* New parameter added notthere_ip (Sponsored by XenoBank who
offer internet privacy via a web browser that
automagically uses the TOR network for web browsing)
* mqhash updated to also use Radio Gatun hash (in 32-bit
mode).
* Currently unused borked_zone test added to SQA regressions
(2009.02.13)
maradns-1.3.12:
This is the development branch of MaraDNS.
* Deadwood 2 updated to version Deadwood-2.02
* When sending a "host not here" reply, the RD and RA bits
in the header were incorrectly set. Fixed. I would like to
thank Dr. Volker Jaenisch for not only pointing out this
bug, but supplying a patch to fix it.
* A compile-time warning when compiling with GCC 4.1
removed.
* mararc_n_verbose_query SQA regression updated to be more
stable.
(2008.09.09)
maradns-1.3.07.09:
This is the stable branch of MaraDNS.
* When sending a "host not here" reply, the RD and RA bits
in the header were incorrectly set. Fixed. I would like to
thank Dr. Volker Jaenisch for not only pointing out this
bug, but supplying a patch to fix it.
* A compile-time warning when compiling with GCC 4.1
removed.
* mararc_n_verbose_query SQA regression updated to be more
stable.
Note: MaraDNS has always used random query IDs and source port
randomization generated using a cryptographically strong
random number generator and was never vulnerable to the "new"
DNS spoofing attack.
(2008.08.04)
maradns-1.2.12.10:
This is the previous stable branch of MaraDNS; only critical bug
fixes are applied to this branch.
* When sending a "host not here" reply, the RD and RA bits
in the header were incorrectly set. Fixed. I would like to
thank Dr. Volker Jaenisch for not only pointing out this
bug, but supplying a patch to fix it.
Note: MaraDNS has always used random query IDs and source port
randomization generated using a cryptographically strong
random number generator and was never vulnerable to the "new"
DNS spoofing attack.
(2008.08.04)
maradns-1.3.11:
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.
* Backpot of ICANN root server list update
* Update to Daniel's maraconf.sh script
* Updates to the FAQ
* Bugfix: segfault when zoneserver was given bad IP in
mararc file
* Bugfix: RD value is now correctly echoed to client again
* Bugfix: RA bit has (generally) a reasonably sensible
value, since some embedded devices actually check this
bit.
* Compile warning when compiling as authoritative-only
server removed.
(2007.12.14)
maradns-1.3.10:
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: Joao 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: Joao 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 of the chain of NS records
in an authoritative-only section, which will allow me to make
thread-safe code which will query other nameservers, should a
given nameserver not function (e.g. Someone changed a
computer's IP. In the three weeks it can take Network
Solutions to update the records on the root nameservers, we
still want to be able to reach the domain in question by using
the other listed nameserver for the domain)
maradns-0.6.19:
Not only did I get to spend some time with my family this
memorial day weekend, I also was able to get Linux up and
going on my new laptop. Took two installs, but everything
except SSL in Konqueror now works. I also, now that the new
laptop is (mostly) up and going, have gotten a chance to work
on MaraDNS. This new laptop, since it has a working battery,
should speed up MaraDNS development--I can now work on MaraDNS
on the train. The latest version is able to go to a remote
server and give us an incomplete answer (only one RR) based on
what the remote server tells us. (2001.05.29)
maradns-0.6.18:
Some minor bugfixes and tweaks: The nameserver will now query
name servers until it is able to find an answer, then it will
go in a loop. (2001.05.24)
maradns-0.6.17:
A fairly significant milestone: This version of MaraDNS is
able to read data from an authoritative nameserver, and, based
on that data, determine the IP of a nameserver closer to the
answer we are looking for. (2001.05.21)
maradns-0.5.24:
Two minor bug fixes: The erre-con-erre-cigarro.maradns.org
query will work, even if authoritative nameservers for the
root are set up; MaraDNS now will run on systems which do not
support the setrlimit system call, such as the GNU Hurd.
(2001.05.21)
maradns-0.5.23:
Three bug fixes: MaraDNS now works with RRs for the root
namserver (MaraDNS, in fact, can now be a nameserver for the
root), the askmara tool now has a timeout (and can ask
questions about the root nameserver), and the output that
MaraDNS generates is unbuffered. (2001.05.19)
maradns-0.6.16:
I have added a lot more debugging stuff as I hunt down why it
is RRs are not being added to the dns RR cache. I think I am
pretty close to pinning it down, and hope tomorrow's release
can add RRs to the big cache. (2001.05.18)
maradns-0.6.15:
I added a simple interactive debugger which lets me see the
state of the DNS cache hash table. Looks like the data from
the server is not being added to the cache. Next: FInd out why
not. (2001.05.17)
maradns-0.6.14:
An unexpected event forcing me to go home late yesterday
caused there not to be a release of MaraDNS yesterday.
Fixed bug where it was not correctly appending the class to
the server that it was querying. Temporarily disabled the
actual threading while development work on the recurseor
continues. Next: Make sure that the cache is properly seeded
from data from authoritative nameservers. (2001.05.17)
maradns-0.6.13:
Fixed bug where it was choosing the wrong IP to query.
Automated the process of setting up a testbed (which is
completely self-contained), so I can debug this on a variety
of machines. Next: Fix the timeout bug. (2001.05.15)
maradns-0.6.12:
MaraDNS compiles again. Now, I need to go through all the code
and iron out all of the bugs. Testbed of MaraDNS configuration
files added. (2001.05.14)
maradns-0.6.11:
More work on the recursive stuff done. (2001.05.13)
maradns-0.6.10:
More work on the recursive stuff done. (2001.05.12)
maradns-0.5.22:
Bugfix release: non-0 opcodes now correctly return a "NOT
IMPLEMENTED" error message. Also, some minor cleanup in the
documentation: star records (*.example.com, etc.) are now
documented. (2001.05.10)
maradns-0.6.09:
add_closer_jsddip, add_closer_js, and add_closer_jsip now have
a third argument: Whether to overwrite or append to already
existing data in the cache. Since the autoconf stuff doesn't
work with the development branch, I got rid of it for now.
Once this code gets stable, one of the Debian packagers can
feel free to add the autoconf stuff again. (2001.05.10)
maradns-0.6.08:
Added in_bailiwick and cmp_dnames functions to recursive.c
(2001.05.09)
maradns-0.5.21:
Feature enhancment: Added round-robin rotation of records and
limits to the number of records that can be displayed for a
given answer to MaraDNS. This will be the last feature
enhancment for the 0.5.xx tree. All changes in the 0.5.xx tree
will now be bug fixes. Now, back to work on the 0.6.xx series,
starting off with integrating the 0.5.xx changes. (2001.05.07)
maradns-0.5.20:
Feature enhancment: We now make sure that the same AR record
does not show up twice in the AR section. Thanks to Phil
Homewood for pointing out this problem. (2001.05.06)
maradns-0.5.19:
Bugfix release: We now follow chains of records in the AR
section. The authoritative bit for an "RR_ALL" request is now
determined by the authoritative bit in the first RR found.
Thanks to Phil Homewood for finding these bugs. (2001.05.06)
maradns-0.6.07:
The askmara tool now uses select() to time out after three
seconds. Added a lot of code to the recursive lookup. I now
send a query to the remote server, and receive the reponse.
Next: Code to process the response and add the data to the
local cache. (2001.05.06)
maradns-0.6.06:
The recursive code now sucessfully seeds a root nameserver in
to the cache. Next: Code to query and get the response form
that nameserver. (2001.05.05)
maradns-0.6.05:
Heavy debugging of the recursive stuff going on. It is not
fixed, but I wanted to post something, however miniscule,
before going to bed. (2001.05.04)
maradns-0.5.18:
Addded new feature: default_rrany_set, which is used to change
the RRs returned when a RR_ANY query is sent to the MaraDNS
server. Thanks to Phil Homewood who pointed out that this is
sometimes needed. (2001.05.03)
maradns-0.6.04:
recursive text documented updated to reflect changes I made on
the train. Some other cleanup. (2001.05.02)
maradns-0.6.03:
Wrote up document detailing the recursive algorithm that
MaraDNS' recursive resolver will use. Integrated the 0.5.17
bugfixes in to the development tree. (2001.05.01)
maradns-0.5.17:
Fixed bug in MaraDNS' handling of zone transfers where the
response is a single big RR instead of multiple small RRs.
Some other small bugfixes. (2001.04.30)
maradns-0.6.02:
I have the general structure of how I want to do the recursive
name serving in place. The devil, however, is in the details.
(2001.04.28)
maradns-0.6.01:
Fixes in MaraDNS-0.5.16 incorporated in to development branch.
Slowly making progress on the recursive code. (2001.04.26)
maradns-0.5.16:
Fixed bug in the zoneserver's handling of replies longer than
255 octets in length. Fixed problem in manpage and updated man
page. Special thanks to Phil Homewood for finding problems the
zone server was having. (2001.04.26)
maradns-0.6.00:
Work on making MaraDNS recursive begins. (2001.04.26)
maradns-0.5.15:
Fatal error messages caused by failed system calls now show
the user the error message that the system gave, in addition
to MaraDNS' error message. (2001.04.26)
maradns-0.5.14:
Added "no_fingerprint" feature which minimizes the
MaraDNS-specific features, making it more difficult to
determine which DNS server one is running. (2001.04.23)
maradns-0.5.13:
Manpage for maradns added. (2001.04.22)
maradns-0.5.12:
Added better support for CNAME records: If the CNAME record
points to an A record, and we have the A record "on file",
MaraDNS will add the CNAME record to the ar section of the
reply. Also added support for getting the version number for
maradns via a 'erre-con-erre-cigarro.maradns.org.' TXT query.
Set things up so we can both a autoconf-based and a
non-autoconf-based build process, and we can switch between
the two. Next: Branch off to development again, because I need
to get the zone server multithreaded. (2001.04.22)
maradns-0.5.11:
Tollef Fog Heen generously ran autoconf for MaraDNS. The build
process now consists of './configure;make'". (2001.04.21)
maradns-0.5.10:
Code cleanup: I added -Wall as an option in the libs, dns, and
server directories. Cleanup of all the warnings that -Wall
generated. Added /etc/mararc and /var/maradns/db.example.com
to RPM file. (2001.04.20)
maradns-0.5.09:
The server crashes were causes by pointers that were not
correctly initialized to zero. The pointers causing the crash
have been initialized, and hopefully this one will be
crashproof. Next: Look for other incorrectly initialized
variables. (2001.04.20)
maradns-0.5.08:
Begin a "stable" brach for the only-authoritative non-threaded
nameserver. Changed compiler option from -g to -O2. Made RPM
of MaraDNS-0.5.08. (2001.04.19)
maradns-0.5.07:
Plugged some memory leaks in the zoneserver which, while not
currently a problem, could have been a problem if I had
started coding threads before plugging the memory leaks. Some
of the leaks were is the js_string library, so that code base
is a lot cleaner now. Made the functions in ParseCsv1.c
thread-safe. My friend Fatma generously supplied a German
translation of the error strings in MaraDNS_en.h--we now have
a MaraDNS_de.h which, while not perfect, will be appreciated
by the Germans. (2001.04.18)
maradns-0.5.06:
The zone server for MaraDNS can now be run from inetd. Due to
the security implications of this (MaraDNS' IP-based ACLs stop
working when run from inetd), this will be an undocumented
feature. (2001.04.18)
maradns-0.5.05:
Phil Homewood generously supplied a patch that makes this
compile on FreeBSD. In addition, he fixed a bug in the
Makefile in dns/Makefile which made it so bobbit.c compiles
instead of using the Linux-specific object file (Which I
didn't catch, since make clean didn't remove it and make
didn't recreate it). I also fixed a bug in getzone.c which was
introduced when I put the string literals in a
language-specific file. (2001.04.17)
maradns-0.5.04:
Added more support for dotted decimal IPs in NS, CNAME, and MX
records. Added handles for code which will warn the user of
the presence of these dotted-decimal IP records. Fixed bug
where js_copy was not returning an appropriate value on
success (2001.04.17)
maradns-0.5.03:
If a "give me all records for a given hostname" query appears,
MaraDNS will now look for a CNAME with the same hostname,
returning only that if found (and she will only look for a
CNAME if an A and MX were not found), and if A, MX, and CNAME
records are not found, MaraDNS will see if the person entered
a dotted decimal ip and respond appropriately. (2001.04.16)
maradns-0.5.02:
Most of the text messages that MaraDNS' various utilities
generate have been moved to separate files, which will make
localization easier. (2001.04.16)
maradns-0.5.01: Bugfix: Since mail exchangers routinely ask for
"all records" queries (to get both A and MX records), I have
hacked MaraDNS to deliver A and MX records if a request for all
records is received. I still need to code the case of a request
for "all records" pointing to a CNAME, though. Also, I have
added a benchmark tool which times a DNS server by sending
50,000 queries to the server in question as quickly as possible.
(2001.04.13)
maradns-0.5.00: The UDP server no longer fork()s off processes
to process queries. I performed a mild stress test, where
MaraDNS was processing 81 queries a second for over an
hour--MaraDNS performed beautifully--memory usage did not
increase, and queries were fast during this test. I am making
this release the stable branch. Next: Get string literals out of
the code. (2001.04.12)
maradns-0.4.04: More bug fixes: Plugged potential memory leaks
in js_buf_getline. Fixed bug where the last line of a csv1 file
was not read. Fixed makefile so that it cleans files in new
location of the zonefile stuff--it's now in a directory called
"tuzona". Next: Go from a multi-process model to a single
process model. (2001.04.12)
maradns-0.4.03: Bugfix: The zone server is now hacked up to give
a plausable-looking answer to a SOA request on the TCP port. As
a result, BIND 4 and BIND 8 will now transfer zones from the
maradns zoneserver. (2001.04.12)
maradns-0.4.02: Bigfix: Hacked zoneserver so that it can work as
a zone server in cases where the zone transfer client asks for
the SOA record before downloading the zone. Also: Added the
ability to verbosely log invalid queries sent to the DNS server,
and to have a log level of 0 make MaraDNS give out no logs
whatsoever. Next: Fix bug where the last line of a csv1 file is
not parsed. (2001.04.12)
maradns-0.4.01: Bugfix: Fixed bug where SOA records were not
properly loaded when we have multiple zones. (2001.04.11)
maradns-0.4.00: Stable branch: This is the stable branch of
MaraDNS, which will only be updated with security fixes. Made
zoneserver check the query type, and drop connection on anything
besides AXFR and IXFR (Hack: The zone server treats an IXFR
exactly like an AXFR). Also cleaned up the error handling in the
zone and udp server code in preparation to make maradns
multithreaded. (2001.04.11)
maradns-0.3.06: Security fix: The zone transfer client now
checks for and disables any out-of-baliwick records it finds
when performing a zone transfer. Feature enhancment: Maradns now
has a working zone transfer server. (2001.04.10)
maradns-0.3.05: An entire parsing engine which processes
ip-based ACLs has been created, complete with recursive aliases.
Zoneserver now only needs the code that reads the client's
request and send them the zone they ask for (as long as they
have access). (2001.04.08)
maradns-0.3.04: TXT, A, and MX records are now "pretty printed"
when downloaded from a foreign zone. All seven RR types
supported by MaraDNS are now pretty printed. Fixed bug with the
handling of "umbrella" NS records. Fixed bug with the handling
of high serial numbers and extra-long TTL values. Next: the AXFR
server. (2001.04.04)
maradns-0.3.03: The getzone program in tcp now generates
working, albeit ugly (too many RR types are still marked 'U'),
MaraDNS zone files based on the data from a zone transfer. Also
found and fixed other bugs the popped up when stressing the
various queries routines with a full Zone transfer. Unreleated
to MaraDNS per se, MaraDNS now has a `real' web page. (Thanks,
Leo!) (2001.04.04)
maradns-0.3.02: Added support for truncating headers. Began work
on getzone zone transfer client. (2001.04.03)
maradns-0.3.01: Fixed bug where the MX preference changed on DNS
compressing and DNS decompressing. (2001.04.01)
maradns-0.3.00: The DNS compression routines now work. Also set
up the server to return "Not implemented" to the unimplemented
requests for zone transfers and the unimplemented requests for
all RRs attached to a hostname. (2001.04.01)
maradns-0.2.10: My theory is that they made DNS comprssion so
difficult to implement out of fear that anyone would be crazy
enough to write their own DNS server. Continued work on the
compression routines. (2001.03.31)
maradns-0.2.09: Moved check for star records attached to CNAME
or to NS RRs in the CSV1 parser, where it belongs. Added support
for "notfound" reply. Next: RFC1035 compression (ugh).
(2001.03.29)
maradns-0.2.08: Added support for ddip addresses (An IP query
for '127.1.1.1' gives the IP '127.1.1.1'). Added almost full
support for star records. Only these somewhat silly star record
cases are not supported: Star records pointing to CNAMEs and to
NSs records. Added code that warns the user if they try to add
an unsupported star record type. Next: The code to give out a
"notfound" reply. (2001.03.28)
maradns-0.2.07: Fixed bug in MaraDNS' handling of case folding.
Added some support for star records. (2001.03.27)
maradns-0.2.06: A and CNAME queries are now case-insensitive.
Changed the bs_process routine to have domain-labels converted
to their lower-case format before octal processing is done (so
we can still have 'A' in a domain label with '\101') Returns NS
delegation if we asked for a host in a sub-delegated domain.
(2001.03.27)
maradns-0.2.05: Cleaned up the makefile so that we don't have
compiled binaries in any of the directories after a "make clean"
is performed. Added support for CNAME and limited NS record
support. (2001.03.26)
maradns-0.2.04: New security feature: Maxprocs, which is a
mandatory way of limiting the resources MaraDNS uses. Added
fix.perms tool. (2001.03.26)
maradns-0.2.03: I have made the directory structure a little
cleaner. The only problem I have now is that multiple Makefiles
have to be changed if I add a new object file. I also have
improved the way MaraDNS cleans up after her children.
(2001.03.26)
maradns-0.2.02: Now, MaraDNS correctly returns NS records and AN
records for every query where it has NS and AN records in its
local database. While I wait for the clows at NSI to figure out
why we can't make maradns.com and maradns.org use ns.maradns.com
and ns.maradns.org as name servers for both domains, I can test
things with www.z.maradns.org (2001.03.25)
maradns-0.2.01: Bugfix: SOA lines can now have percent escape
sequences in them. (2001.03.25)
maradns-0.2.00: Incremented minor number in light of the fact
MaraDNS now actually resolves, albeit in a very limited fashion.
Added some QuickStart notes, and added the ability for uint16s
and uint32s to be added directly to the end of a JS_STRING
object. (2001.03.25)
maradns-0.1.40: MaraDNS now resolves hosts. It doesn't handle a
lot of cases where the resolution is not an exact match (NS
records for stuff below us, star records, etc.) nor does it give
us NS or AN records, nor the IP for a Cname record (if
applicable), but at least MaraDNS is finally resolving. To do:
js_string function for adding uint16s and uin32s in a single
fell swoop, and real name resolution. (2001.03.25)
maradns-0.1.39: At this point, MaraDNS binds to a port and
listens to incoming data. Next: Actually process the data that
she gets (2001.03.24)
maradns-0.1.38: Added the code that adds pointers to the
corresponding A records for MX, NS, and CNAME records.
(2001.03.23)
maradns-0.1.37: Placed the code that converts star records in a
more sensible location. Added a new element in the rr answer
which is a pointer to the query string (we need this so we can
tell the resolver both the question and the answer with the NS
records, and which IP addresses go with which answers in the AR
records) (2001.03.21)
maradns-0.1.36: Now we convert star records (record which start
off with a * label) to an EDNS-style format MaraDNS uses for its
internal hash of RRs (2001.03.19)
maradns-0.1.35: Verified that records are placed in the bug hash
correctly. Next: We can now start making this a working DNS
server. Bind to the port, answering UDP queries using a simple
forking model. (2001.03.18)
maradns-0.1.34: Added some more security features: It now
chroot's and changes the uid if it is run as root. Also made a
function that adds a RR to the end of a chain of RRs before the
first NS RR. (2001.03.17)
maradns-0.1.33: Plugged up some memory leaks in MaraHash.c.
Added a lot of code which starts populating the big hash with
data. (2001.03.17)
maradns-0.1.32: More work on the the populate+bighash routine.
Now, when a syntax error is encountered, MaraDNS makes a
best-faith effort to continue processing zone files.
(2001.03.16)
maradns-0.1.31: Additional work on that routine. Now, it
correctly make sure that we add the NS records for the zone
before the NS records, and also fixed some other bugs in this
routine. Next: Make add_rr_to_bighash really check the authority
of a record and and data to the big hash (2001.03.15)
maradns-0.1.30: Worked on the routine to fill up the "big hash"
with the appropriate data. Now, I need to replace the "dummy"
add_rr_to_bighash with a routine that adds the appropriate rr to
the big hash (if appropriate). (2001.03.14)
maradns-0.1.29: Installed a new verison of Linux on my Laptop
(Esware 2.0r2, a Spanish RedHat clone with the 2.4 kernel).
Begun work on MaraDNS.c. Next: continue work on MaraDNS.c
(2001.03.13)
maradns-0.1.28: Made all of the string literals in ParseMaraRc.c
labels which point to entries in ParseMaraRc_en.h. Wrote and
documented Perl script which automates this kind of work. I did
the same with ParseCsv1.c (ParseCsv1_en.h). (2001.03.11)
maradns-0.1.27: Pasted in read/write/setup kvar code from the
code that parsed the kiwirc file in the kiwi2 anti-spam package.
Modified mararc code so that it can parse both simple strings
and dictionaries (Assosciative arrays) Next: The code that
populates the DNS lookup hash based on the data read from the
mararc file. (2001.03.11)
maradns-0.1.26: Made the code that parses mararc lines a little
more senisible. It's still hackish, but is somewhat pedantic
about what kind of syntax it accepts, returning errors when
wrong syntax is given to it. (2001.03.10)
maradns-0.1.25: Added support for % in csv1 file. Revised
csv1.format document. Next: figure out a way to store "star
records" in the hash table in such a way as to not step on the
EDNS standards. And implement that method. (2001.03.09)
maradns-0.1.24: Added support for MX and "Unknown"
(user-specified query type) data types. Added support for
'\xxx'-style escape sequences, making it possible to have
arbitrary data in the csv1 zone file. (2001.03.08)
maradns-0.1.23: Changed js_atoi to return unsigned integers.
Added support for TXT and SOA records. Tested to make sure error
correction looks good. Next: PTR shorthand, more efficient
Makefile. (2001.03.07)
maradns-0.1.22: Split off some of the routines in other files to
new .c files: ParseCsv1.c and Utf8.c. Created js_addbyte
routine. Added csv1test and example_csv1 files to test the csv1
parsing routines. Created js_changebyte routine. ParseCsv1
routine now parses all data types except for the SOA datatype.
Next: SOA datatype, shortcut for PTR datatype. (2001.03.07)
maradns-0.1.21: Wrote utf8test to test the ability to convert
ISO 8859-1 strings to UTF-8 strings. Found minor bug in code,
fixed, and now ISO 8859-1 strings are correctly copied. I had to
set up X and recompile xterm to support all this. Cleaned up the
comments in the js_notmatch_offset code (they were never cleaned
up from the Kiwi days). Clean up of some code in Queries.c.
Wrote about half of the line parsing code for parsing csv1
lines. csv1 format doc clean up. (2001.03.07)
maradns-0.1.20: I have decided that MaraDNS will use UTF-8 to
support international characters in domain names. I have added
the draft RFC for UTF8 domain names and a description of UTF8 in
the docs. In terms of code, we now have code that converts ISO
8859-1 to UTF-8. In addition, I have written up a couple of
documents describing the csv1 non-standard Zone file format, and
how MaraDNS will resolve a domain name. (2001.03.06)
maradns-0.1.19: Added routines to handle getting all of the keys
of a hash in series (in the semi-random order they are in the
hash table). Corrected errors in parseline code, it now works
with foo["bar"] = "baz" lines and no longer considers foo["bar"]
= baz legal. foo["bar"] = 1 is still legal. (2001.03.04)
maradns-0.1.18: More ParseMaraRC hacking (this this is a real
hack. A really bad hack. At least the elegant js_string lib
stops it from being a security problem). It now has routines
that can fill up an assosciative array based on user-specified
keys and values. Next: Routine that reads the rc file, and,
based on the data there, begins reading zone files. The zone
files will then be read in turn, and then populate a hash.
(2001.03.03)
maradns-0.1.17: More ParseMaraRC.c hacking. Now, it can parse
'foo = {}', 'foo["bar"] = "baz"', and 'foo = "bar"'. Next: Write
the routine to read an entire maradnsrc (maybe we should just
call this mararc) and fill up the hash table with the names of
all of the zones. (2001.03.03)
maradns-0.1.16: Modified js_anq_chars handle just numerics. Made
it correctly handle just alphabetics. Renamed 'ctest' to
'askmara'. Rewrote askmara.c to have all labels in another file
(askmara_labels_en.h), to make translation easier. (2001.03.02)
maradns-0.1.15: Continuing the retooling of code from the
KiwiSpam package to use assosciative arrays in ParseMaraRC.c.
Yes, this whole parser is a hack instead of a proper parser.
Right now, the single line parser groks foo["bar"] = baz. Next:
get it to grok foo = {} (2001.03.01)
maradns-0.1.14: Beginning the retooling of code from the
KiwiSpam package to use assosciative arrays in ParseMaraRC.c.
This will be a fairly extensive code rewrite, considering the
code I am modding is somewhat hacky itself. (2001.03.01)
maradns-0.1.13: Fixed bug where ctest resolver program did not
print out SOA replies (2001.02.28)
maradns-0.1.12: Added support for TXT in ctest resolver code.
Made ctest code more hardy--it validates all input and returns
an error if there is a problem at any point. (2001.02.27)
maradns-0.1.11: Support for MX and SOA, and a number of other
formats that may have compressed data in them now added to the
decompression routine. ctest now can parse any RR that MaraDNS
fully supports except TXT (A, NS, SOA, MX, CNAME, HINFO), and is
now a rather verbose dig replacment. Got rid of the cruft
variables in the decompression routine. Next: Have a routine to
decode TXT data. (2001.02.27)
maradns-0.1.10: You know how to handle buggy code? Rewirte the
code so that it is simpler and less buggy. A lot of the overhead
I had was not needed to keep things secure. The docs on how
MaraDNS handles decompression have been revised also. RFC1035
decompression now works, still need to add MX and SOA, and
possibly support for other data types that get compressed (SRV,
the obscure RFC1035 datatypes, etc.) Also, get rid of some of
the cruft variables in the decompression code. (2001.02.26)
maradns-0.1.09: Had a good weekend. Got to see a friend of mine
and his wife get baptised. Continued work on decompress_data. It
is still buggy, but I am working out the bugs. (2001.02.26)
maradns-0.1.08: Added read_rr_h. Also began work on
decompress_data (Ugh. rfc1035 compression is horrible.)
(2001.02.22)
maradns-0.1.07: Fixed potential overflow in rtest (probably
never exploitable) Discovered that DNS servers do not support
QDCOUNT > 1 in DNS queries. Made notes in "doc" about this.
(2001.02.21)
maradns-0.1.06: ctest now sends correctly formed DNS queries to
a DNS server (2001.02.21)
maradns-0.1.05: Added hname_2rfc1035, which does the reverse of
hname_translate. Beginning work on ctest, which is a test DNS
client, to see what kind of replies we get from DNS servers.
(2001.02.21)
maradns-0.1.04: Debugged routines in Query.c that convert a
RFC1035 question in to a query. Added routine that converts a
RFC1035 domain name (with class) in to a dotted-decimal
hostname. (2001.02.20)
maradns-0.1.03: Began work on debugging routines in Query. Time
to go to work (2001.02.20)
maradns-0.1.02: Wrote first (test-only) server that listens on
port 53. Using this server to determine what kind of data
resolvers ask for. (2001.02.20)
maradns-0.1.01: Added some more RFC1035 data to MaraDns.h
(2001.02.20)
maradns-0.1.00: Begin work on handlers to handle various data
types that RFC1035 has. (2001.02.20)
maradns-0.0.08: Added js_anq_chars, js_alpha_chars, and
js_an_chars to JsStrCP object. (2001.02.19)
maradns-0.0.07: Good morning! Added mtuple_new, mtuple_put, and
mtuple_get functions. Fixed bug where mhash_inc would allow a
return value of 0. Fixed Makefile so make clean cleans up mtest
binary. Added bounds testing to mhash_resize hashtable size.
Time to eat breakfast. (2001.02.19)
maradns-0.0.06: Added mara_tuple support and verified that hash
collisions are properly handled. Time to go to evening church
recital. (2001.02.18)
maradns-0.0.05: Corrected mhash_resize to blank out the hash we
resize to. Create mtest.c program to test the creation of hash
elements. Time to get ready for church. (2001.02.18)
maradns-0.0.04: We now properly handle the case of trying to add
an element already there (return an error), and have more error
checking to make sure we don't crash because of corrupt hash
data. Added an interactive test which lets the user
interactively add, delete, and view hash elements. Time to go to
bed (2001.02.18)
maradns-0.0.03: Some more work has been done. mhash_undef_js and
mhash_resize functions written and compile. (2001.02.18)
maradns-0.0.02: MaraHash functions--assosciative array methods
utilizing a hash--have been set up. This has the functions
mhash_create, mhash_js, mhash_inc, mhash_put, mhash_get,
mhash_undef, mhash_put_js, and mhash_get_js. Debugging
done--these functions can perform basic get/put operatins with
elements in an assosciative array. (2001.02.18)
maradns-0.0.01: First version of MaraDNS package. Added
iso-8859-1 support to JsStr routines. Added js_qappend and
js_qprepend functions there. In addition to js_qfgrep. All
tested functions work and are without error. (2001.02.17)
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