From maradns at gmail.com  Sat Jul 20 03:33:24 2013
From: maradns at gmail.com (Sam Trenholme)
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 00:33:24 -0700
Subject: [MaraDNS list] New MaraDNS testing release
Message-ID: <CAJxgfkQtXBh=0ENe4kn5qM1pAwxxA5msN4xm0SxvHdq16bJqrQ@mail.gmail.com>

A few days ago, I fixed a bug in Deadwood; a very rare DNS packet
would cause a name to not resolve:

    http://samiam.org/blog/20130713.html

I have now made a formal testing release with the seven-line patch to
fix this bug, MaraDNS-2.0.07c (Deadwood 3.2.03c):

    http://maradns.org/download/2.0/snap/

    http://maradns.org/deadwood/snap/

This will probably become the stable MaraDNS/Deadwood release in
September or October.

While not a critical security bug, I consider name resolution bugs in
Deadwood important, and may do out-of-band updates to fix them.
Otherwise, I plan to work on MaraDNS/Deadwood again one day in a
couple of months unless a critical security bug with a CVE number is
found.

- Sam

From maradns at gmail.com  Wed Jul 31 14:19:22 2013
From: maradns at gmail.com (Sam Trenholme)
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:19:22 -0700
Subject: [MaraDNS list] MaraDNS now has a RSS feed
Message-ID: <CAJxgfkTjhku7R7QOGZ0ODZKRw9xdSKanYLbdBup6yMuJ39HWtQ@mail.gmail.com>

Even though RSS is probably slowly dying [1], I have added an RSS feed
for MaraDNS blog updates:

http://www.samiam.org/blog/maradns.rss

For people who forget this URL, it's also in the headers at
http://maradns.org; most RSS readers will be able to find it there and
point to the RSS feed.  The code for making this RSS feed is
completely automated, so it will be there for the foreseeable future,
even if RSS goes the way of Gopher. [2]

Note that only the first paragraph of a given blog entry is available
via RSS.   The blog indexing code already has most of the code for
summarizing entries; adding an RSS format for the blog index only took
about 30 minutes (including the time researching the RSS format,
verifying that time stamps do not need a day of week, and making sure
everything looks good in an RSS reader).  Adding an RSS for full blog
entries is too much work for what is, in truth, a waning format.

I think the reason RSS feeds are going away is because publishers
can?t find a good way of making money with them.

- Sam

[1] http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-final-farewell.html

[2] I actually had a Gopher server up for a few months but took it
down because it needed too much manual TLC to keep up-to-date:
http://www.samiam.org/blog/20121130.html