[MaraDNS list] Merry Christmas everyone

[Sam Trenholme]

I would like to thank the whole community of MaraDNS users a very
merry Christmas as we wrap up 2011 and move on to 2012.

I have made a lot of improvements to MaraDNS and its recursive
resolver Deadwood in 2011.  Not only have I fixed a number of bugs,
but I have also greatly improved Deadwood's speed resolving domains,
both by not having it slow down when getting certain problematic
packets, and by adding features to speed up resolution.

One last thought as 2001 comes to an end:

> Deadwood has support for having up to 1,000 different IPs in one's
> results black-listed; if we get a DNS reply with a black-listed IP,
> the reply is not sent to us.  For example, the malware authors are
> currently using the IP 64.111.199.250 to host these unwanted
> redirects.  To blacklist this, one can add this to one's dwood3rc
> file:

I would like people to know that the owner of this IP has contacted me
and now has a zero-tolerance policy for malware and other click fraud:
 http://64.111.199.250/

Happy new year 2012!

- Sam