While the old recursive code is still in place to allow people to slowly make the transition to using Deadwood as their recursive DNS server, Deadwood 2.9.02 is included. The Windows version of MaraDNS has had its documentation updated to encourage people to use Deadwood for recursion instead of MaraDNS; I will also start nudging *NIX users along.
I have also, as blogged about yesterday, made a tool for getting entropy from the OS and putting it in a file. This is currently a very simple tool; it makes a random 64-byte file called secret.txt which MaraDNS and Deadwood can use. It acts like a UNIX command: There is no user interface; when it is run, it just silently creates the 64-byte random secret.txt file, overwriting any already existing secret.txt, and only outputting something if something goes wrong.
It’s a lot better than the old “just type in some random text to make secret.txt” directions I have given. I plan on making it a little more friendly (failing if secret.txt already exists, and stating the secret.txt file has been created, and always pausing and having the user hit a key so they know what the program is doing if called from the GUI.)
In addition, I fixed the bug with delegation NS records and ANY queries, as well as incorporating a NAPTR bugfix I made a few months ago in to the code. There is a full changelog.
It can be looked at here:
http://maradns.org/download.html
Or here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/maradns
