Deadwood 2.9.01 released: Recursion is ready for beta testing

[Sam Trenholme]

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

Actually, Deadwood has the opposite of NXDOMAIN redirection:
ip_blacklist, which will create a synthetic “NXDOMAIN” if a
blacklisted IP (such as a spammer or the IP given when a NXDOMAIN is
redirected) is seen.

I haven’t implemented notthere_ip for the simple reason that no one
has offered to pay me to implement that (XeroBank paid me to implement
it for MaraDNS 1.x).

My opinion of NXDOMAIN redirection is that it’s a feature end users
usually do not want; my target audience when developing Deadwood was
an open-source enthusiast installing it on their embedded 32-bit
router (perhaps with OpenWRT) or as a lightweight server on one’s
32-bit or 64-bit personal computer.

I am, of course, perfectly willing to add notthere_ip support to
Deadwood if an ISP is making advertising revenue from it, and lets me
have a cut of said revenue.  Open source ideals are nice, but I have a
wife today and have to figure out a way to pay the bills for the two
of us.

- Sam

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