Compiling MaraDNS and Deadwood

Requirements

MaraDNS is supported on two platforms: CentOS Linux 5, and Windows XP (via MinGW32).

Other systems can be easily ported to, but are not supported. This means that, while it should be fairly easy to port MaraDNS to another platform, you will have to port it yourself or pay me to port it for you. The Windows XP port does not support all of the features the CentOS Linux version has.

Downloading, compiling, and installing MaraDNS

Obtain MaraDNS from www.maradns.org
Extract the MaraDNS tarball:
bzip2 -cd maradns-*.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
Enter the directory that the above extraction generated.
Compile MaraDNS. Type in ./configure followed by make in the top-level MaraDNS directory.
Install the MaraDNS package. As root:
make install
This will install both the binaries and the man pages for 'maradns', 'Deadwood' (MaraDNS 2.0's recursive DNS server), 'askmara', 'duende', 'fetchzone', and 'zoneserver'. In addition, this will (if the files are not already present), install an example /etc/mararc, make the /etc/maradns directory, and place an example zone file (db.example.com) in /etc/maradns. Finally, this will place MaraDNS documentation in /usr/local/doc ; man pages will be placed in /usr/local/man or /usr/local/share/man.