Deadwood 2.9.07 released: Better performance and security

[Marlon]

 On 09/09/2010 05:16 AM, Sam Trenholme wrote:
> I have released Deadwood 2.9.07 today, which has (on my system)
> slightly better performance than Unbound—I have fixed the performance
> problems recently discussed on the mailing list.
>
> In addition, I have improved the security a little by revising how
> Deadwood gets some entropy for its “hash compression function”; this
> better protects Deadwood against some obscure denial of service
> attacks.
>
> Deadwood 2.9.07 can be downloaded as source code and as a Windows binary here:
>
> http://maradns.org/deadwood/testing/
>
> I encourage people to download this release and report bugs here on
> the mailing list.
>
> - Sam
>

Hi,

I repeat here the tests with Deadwood 2.9.07, please see the results below:


time $(for h in $(cat hosts.txt); do printf "\n\n\n"; dig $h; done >
test.log)

Deadwood:    3m25.948s
Unbound:      1m13.523s


Namebench:

Deadwood - AVG(ms): 830.77     Min: 0.44     Max: 7604.16     Err: 12   
NoAns:  1
Unbound -   AVG(ms): 457.22     Min: 0.57     Max: 7002.80     Err: 1 
    NoAns:  0

Regards,

Marlon