Deadwood at OpenWRT

[Markus Ferlitsch]

Cool.

I also use maradns on OpenWRT routers. It works fine and very stabil!

greets, Markus

2010/9/10, Sebastian Müller <spamcatch-maradns.org at messageme.de>:
> Am 10.09.2010 04:26, schrieb Sam Trenholme:
>> I’m very curious how well Deadwood works on an embedded OpenWRT host.
>>
> I just used the host.txt Juergen Daubert posted a few days ago and ran
> it from a client. I am connected on a cable connection with a latency of
> 10ms to my upstream DNS Server.
>
> It took 0m57.597s to finish, before the MaraDNS upstream server cached
> the results
> and 0m13.621s after the upstream MaraDNS cached it.
>
> Both times I flushed Deadwood's cache.
>
>> I do apologize for not using $HOSTCC correctly; I’ve never used a
>> cross compiler to compile Deadwood, so I neglected to set up the
>> makefile to always use $HOSTCC to compile the RandomPrime tool (which
>> is used to compile other programs).
>>
>> Note that while I have written Deadwood to be endian-neutral, I have
>> never had the chance to test Deadwood on a big-endian system like the
>> MIPS ISA.  Does Deadwood work without problem on a big-endian system?
>> If not, let me know, and I’ll see if I can get QEMU or whatever set up
>> to debug the big-endian issues.
>>
> I didn't ran into any trouble yet, using Deadwood since a few weeks
> (2.9.03) on my TP-Link TL-WR1043ND. One time I got a segfault, but after
> recompiling (and changing nothing) everything worked. It is possible
> that I forgot to shutdown DNSMasq which is the default resolver on
> OpenWRT before running Deadwood.
>
>> I also wonder if there is a MIPS version of the “strip” tool?  I know
>> x86_32 binaries are about 90 or 100k in size, but squeeze down to
>> being 64k binaries when stripped.  For example, Deadwood 2.9.07
>> compiles to be 100,589 bytes in size in Windows32, but “strip” reduces
>> its size to 64,512 bytes (the x86_64 binary is about 82k in size after
>> -Os + strip).  118k seems to be about right for an unstripped binary;
>> see if you can strip it to make it 70k or 80k in size (I know MIPS’
>> ISA does result in larger binaries than x86’s ISA; there’s a reason
>> the ARM ISA has the “thumb” instruction set).
>>
> Yes, there is a strip tool, after striping the file sizes 100768 bytes.
> I used -s for striping
>
>>> -s --strip-all     Remove all symbol and relocation information
>
>
>> Besides that, it looks really good.  Is is OK if I add your Makefile
>> to the Deadwood distribution once we figure out how to strip the
>> binary?
>
> I just updated makefile and binary, to give it a easier
> look/understanding for you about the PATH hierarchy and added striping.
> Yeah, of course can you add it if you want. I mainly posted here to
> reach people who are interested in getting Deadwood running off x86.
>
> Sebastian
>
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