Deadwood 2.4 has a number of features Deadwood 2.3 doesn't have, most notably RR rotation, TTL aging, and dictionary support for upstream_servers--you can have one upstream DNS servers to recursively resolve "google.com" for you and another, that redirects phishing domains, resolve "rnyspace.com" or "paypaI.com" for you.
I have just released Deadwood 2.4.08 today. Compared to Deadwood 2.3, Deadwood 2.4 has:
- TCP and UDP done by the same service/process
- upstream_servers now a full "dictionary" variable
- Full DNS compression and decompression support
- RR rotation and TTL aging
- ip_blacklist support (if you have an annoying ISP DNS server that redirects mistyped domains to some ad-filled page, just put the IPs of that annoying page on your ip_blacklist and Deadwood will make it a DNS "not there" reply again)
- execfile support (Deadwood can now include other files while parsing its configuration file)
- Merging multiple identical in-flight queries (if you just asked for google.com, and ask for it again, instead of creating a new query for google.com, it will just merge your query with the one already sent)
http://www.maradns.org/deadwood/
I have also updated the MaraDNS snapshot release to have the download page point to the new 2.4 stable release of Deadwood.
