[MaraDNS list] Split Horizon on the horizon?

Thu Nov 10 12:30:05 EST 2011

Well, I don't see an email from Bradley asking to keep it anonymous,
so I am very please to tell everyone that Bradley has made a very
generous donation to the MaraDNS cause this month.  I really
appreciate the donation, Bradley.

I know I've gotten more acid over the years about MaraDNS, and I
apologize for my rude behavior.  When I started writing MaraDNS, I was
a very different person.  I was unmarried, and I had a lot of ideals I
no longer have today.  Over the years, I have come to understand why
the open source ideals make it a lot harder to monetize software
development.

This is a realization most open source developers come to sooner or
later.  Most of the time, the developers abandon their project without
any discussion with their users.  I feel the MaraDNS community
deserves better than that, and this is why I have fund raising drives,
so that, for a modest amount of money, the MaraDNS community continues
to have a DNS server that meets their needs.

Anyway, on to the feature request: I would love to do it Bradley.
Here's the deal: I'm not sure how long it will take to implement, and
I feel it's more important to get all of the bug fixes done so far
more readily available to the community.

In more detail:

* The Deadwood 3.0.04 release broke reject_aaaa and reject_ptr (a
couple of features it has so that DNS lookup timeouts don't slow
things down with some Linux applications).  I have already fixed it,
and will release Deadwood 3.0.05 this morning with that fixed.

* There's a lot of bug fixes in the current MaraDNS 2 snapshot and
it's time to get MaraDNS 2.0.04 out there.

* I will then backport some of the bug fixes to the MaraDNS 1 branch
and release MaraDNS 1.4.07.

After that:

* I've gotten a lot of requests for split horizon for MaraDNS over the
years.  If donations continue next month, I will gladly implement
this.

There's a lot that needs to be done: First I will need to carefully
add code to the fragile csv2 parser to allow split horizon tags for
single records.  I will also have to add the ability to parse split
horizon information in one's mararc file.  Once all that is done, I
will have to add a split horizon bitmask to each DNS record, and add
the code to look at the bitmask and correlate it to the incoming IP.

I can do it.  I don't think I can do it with only one month's worth of
donations, but I can almost certainly do it for IPv4 if I get
donations for both December and January.

- Sam

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:14 AM, david sevilla <dsevilla00 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Bradley, if I may jump in, I don't think Sam ever meant
> to make you feel personally attacked, it's simply that he is seeing his time is
> better spent on something else (I assume that means his family and job). He was simply being honest about it, but I don't think he was being offensive. I hope you see it that way too. I know in some cases Sam has been ironic and a bit deffensive (with people demanding stuff), but it really doesn't look like it's the case now.anyway, hope you guys have a good day
>> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:34:09 -0800
>> From: Bradley at NorthTech.US
>> To: list at maradns.org
>> Subject: Re: [MaraDNS list] Split Horizon on the horizon?
>>
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>> um... Sam. Oh, man...
>>
>> I don't know what to say. that kind of caught me absolutely by surprise.
>>
>> I was asking whether you had it in your mind to begin augmenting any
>> features that you found alluring, and it/when you ever got around to it.
>>
>> I didn't ask you if you would begin implementing anything for me. I
>> appreciate what happens in the open source world - especially the shit
>> that I release publicly and freely to everyone in the world!
>>
>> I've never had any issues when I found myself directly, and monetarily,
>> sponsoring your development efforts in the past with regards to La Mara.
>>
>> There were no auspices in my email asking you if you would expand the
>> encompassing bounds of La Mara DNS based upon anything I was prepared to
>> sponsor - As *ALWAYS* in the past, between us, I would have sent you a
>> private email had that been the case.
>>
>> I've been running your software and have contributed several times over
>> the years (financially) to your project, or noble cause, as I have
>> championed it, and as I have seen it to be at times.
>>
>> I asked a simple question and you hit me with that fucking emotional
>> blackmail thang? And, ironically, at a period in time where I was
>> actually  thinking of petitioning to commission you in the development
>> of some more additional, specific, particular, functionalities?
>>
>> That's pretty fricken' messed up dude.
>>
>> We've known each other for more than a decade and I get that extremely
>> insulting, and personally offensive response below from you?
>>
>> I dunno Sam. I wholeheartedly support your quest for compensation where
>> development occurs, yet the kick in the groin you just delivered to me
>> is, um..., Personally Offensive.
>>
>> I bid you the most and the best of it Sam. You have personally offended
>> me. And I considered you an online colleague, perhaps friend, and above
>> all, above that.
>>
>> On 11/09/2011 09:15 AM, Sam Trenholme wrote:
>> > Show me the money and we'll talk.
>> >
>> > My time has become too valuable for me to continue making substantial
>> > contributions to MaraDNS without being fairly compensated.  MaraDNS and
>> > Deadwood already nicely meet my own needs, so I no longer have a
>> > non-financial motivation to work on MaraDNS anymore.
>> >
>> > - Sam
>> >
>> > 2011/11/9 Bradley D. Thornton <Bradley at northtech.us>:
>> > Hey Sam,
>> >
>> > Have you any current inklings toward the support of Split Horizon
>> > capabilities?
>> >
>> > I ask because I've come across a few instances where this is desirable.
>> >
>> > Just wondering, when you get a chance.
>> >
>> > Kindest regards,
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>>
>> - --
>> Bradley D. Thornton
>> Manager Network Services
>> NorthTech Computer
>> TEL: +1.760.666.2703  (US)
>> TEL: +44.203.318.2755 (UK)
>> http://NorthTech.US
>>
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