Question about high performance with MaraDNS

[Sam Trenholme]

> We're about to install a testing environment and we'll let you know our results.

I am looking forward to that.  Be sure to also try MaraDNS 2.0 when
(and if) it comes out.  MaraDNS 2.0 is a complete rewrite of the
recursive code; it will not use threads and should be less CPU-bound.

My current MaraDNS 2.0 progress is this: If someone sat me down and
paid me to work on MaraDNS full-time, I could probably get MaraDNS 2.0
out the door by June sometime.  Since that’s not about to happen (the
code is free — it’s hard to find people willing to pay hard cash for
something given away), I can't give a timeline.

Hopefully it will be ready by the end of the summer; I did essentially
all of the infrastructure needed for a fully recursive DNS server in
2009, got burnt out and took a break last September, and recently
ended that break and am slowly making progress again.  A lot depends
on the day job I have; when I have a “twiddle my thumbs until
something breaks” day job, I make progress much more quickly than with
a “develop software as quickly as possible” day job.

As an aside, right now I don’t have a day job; when I return to the US
mid-June, I would like a good job.  If anyone can provide me leads, I
really appreciate it.

- Sam

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