I'm back!
I've uploaded a new Deadwood snapshot today. I've done some hardening to the DNS compression code; it now has no warnings nor leaks reported by Valgrind. I'm running this code right now as my DNS server to see if the problem with the server crashing comes up again; if it doesn't, I'll do the other tests and make a testing release of Deadwood early next week.
It can be downloaded at the usual place