Deadwood 2.9.01 released: Recursion is ready for beta testing

[jefsey]

Great! Thank you!
I hope I can work on it all this coming month of august.
Best.
jfc

At 21:11 22/07/2010, Sam Trenholme wrote:
>I have just released Deadwood 2.9.01.  This is the first release of
>Deadwood with full recursion; in other words, in addition to getting
>information from upstream_servers, Deadwood can now use root_servers
>(if neither upstream_servers nor root_servers are set, Deadwood
>defaults to the ICANN IPv4 root servers).
>
>The release is available here, both as source code and as Windows binaries:
>
>http://maradns.org/deadwood/testing/
>
>This releases fixes a lot of issues people have reported here on the
>list and elsewhere: Deadwood has full IPv6 support.  This release
>handles CNAMEs correctly and doesn't have the issues MaraDNS 1.x has
>with AAAA records that point to CNAMEs.  There is a good chance that a
>domain that doesn't resolve with MaraDNS 1.x will resolve with
>Deadwood.
>
>More importantly, I'm willing to listen to bug reports about names not
>resolving again.  If a given name doesn't resolve in Deadwood 2.9, but
>resolves using another DNS server, I want to know about it.  I now can
>give people something better than "read
>http://maradns.org/faq.html#resolve and no I won't fix it" when people
>report bugs with MaraDNS' recursive resolver.  For example, when Ms.
>Maxine Ritter reported a bug with recursive ANY queries, I told her I
>wouldn't fix that.  Well, that's changed and I have fixed her issue;
>Deadwood 2.9 correctly handles ANY queries.
>
>It has been a long road to get here. I have wanted to rewrite MaraDNS'
>recursive resolver since 2002; I started writing Deadwood in 2007 and
>it's finally feature-complete.
>
>I encourage people to test Deadwood 2.9.01 and report any bugs they
>find.  Please keep the following in mind:
>
>     * Valgrind-reported memory leaks can always be reported.
>Valgrind-reported errors are only valid if Deadwood is compiled with
>-DVALGRIND_NOERRORS
>
>     * The only officially supported OSes are Windows XP and CentOS 5.
>OS-specific issues such as startup, daemonizing, sysloggin, and
>/etc/resolv.conf setup are only supported on these two OSes.
>
>     * Bugs need to be reported to the MaraDNS list, not to my email
>account nor as blog comments. I hope to have time to set up a web
>forum for MaraDNS/Deadwood support for people not comfortable with
>mailing lists, but no promises.
>
>- Sam
>
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>
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