[MaraDNS list] Having trouble running maradns and deadwood on the same host

[Sam Trenholme]

I will update the FAQs (MaraDNS FAQ and Deadwood FAQ; recursive
tutorial) to point out Deadwood's default built-in DNSwall
functionality. [1] [2]  The next day I plan to work on
MaraDNS/Deadwood is on June 10, 2011. [3]

- Sam

[1] This information is included in the CHANGELOG for Windows users,
but that doesn't help UNIX-clone users.

[2] The reason for this is because Deadwood was designed as a DNS
server for web surfing, either running on localhost or in a router.
It may not be the best DNS server for mail hubs, since MTAs need to
make two queries to find out where to deliver mail (the MX query, then
an A or AAAA query), and because no one has used Deadwood as a DNS
server for mail hubs and let me know how well it works for them.  I
would also like to know how well Deadwood works as a name server on an
IPv6 network.

[3] I hope to have time to release Deadwood 3.0.03 because the bug of
stopping resolution of a name if we get a REFUSED reply upstream for
non-AAAA queries [4] which I fixed in the daily snapshots [5] is
fairly significant.

[4] Some brain-dead DNS servers give a REFUSED reply when asked for an
AAAA query.  See
http://maradns.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-deadwood-snapshot-better-handling.html

[5] http://maradns.org/deadwood/snap

2011/5/27 Sebastiano Pilla <sebastiano at datafaber.net>:
> David Kowis wrote:
>>>
>>> I couldn't find anything about that command option in the documentation
>>> online. Could you add a question to your FAQ?
>>
>> http://www.maradns.org/deadwood/doc/Deadwood.txt
>>
>> Ah, I did finally find it after searching for "filter_rfc1918" I don't
>> think I found that file when I was browsing the normal documentation page.
>>
>> Thanks for making a handy DNS server, and for your help finding the issue.
>
> Ah, I wish I was able to make such good software as Deadwood and MaraDNS...
> Anyways, I think that a mention in the recursive server tutorial page [1]
> would be a good idea, what do you think Sam ?
>
> [1]: http://www.maradns.org/tutorial/recursive.html
>
> Best Regards
> Sebastiano Pilla
>