Deadwood 2.9.01 released: Recursion is ready for beta testing

[Marlon]

Sounds good.

this release has the feature "nothere =  IP" for nxdomain redirection ?

Regards,

Marlon


On 07/22/10 16:11, 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
>
> Note: I do not answer MaraDNS (including Deadwood) support requests
> sent by private email without being compensated for my time. A MaraDNS
> support request is any and all discussion you may wish to have about
> MaraDNS in private email; if you want to email me to talk about
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> you want this kind of support. Thank you for your understanding.
>
> MaraDNS security vulnerability reports, however, will be dealt with
> without charge and kept confidential. If you don't know what Bugtraq
> is, then, no, your email is not a security report. It is not a
> security report unless you've done due diligence to determine how the
> security bug you think you found can reasonably be exploited.
>
>