New Deadwood snapshot; allowing anonymous comments

I have just uploaded a new Deadwood snapshot; this release does not change the program, but it has updated the INSTALL.txt file to be current and all compile-time flags Deadwood has are now documented.

It can be looked at here:

http://maradns.org/deadwood/snap/

This may be my last snapshot announcement for Deadwood snapshot updates when the actual Deadwood program has not been changed.

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I have enabled anonymous comments in my blog again, since it looks like Google has enabled comment spam protection. As always, comments posted here are moderated and Deadwood/MaraDNS support requests will not be published, nor will flames, trolling, and spam.

I’ve updated the blog

I’ve added a couple of things to the left sidebar of the blog:

• A pointer to a FAQ with some guidelines on what comments get approved or rejected here
• A search tool so people can search for information in older blog entries

Please read the blog FAQ before posting a comment here; the FAQ describes what comments I approve and reject.

I’ve disabled anonymous comments

I have disabled anonymous comments on this blog. Unfortunately, I am having to reject about one spam comment a day which post using anonymous identities. Even before the spammers came here, my experience has been that anonymous posters usually post something stupid or a flame; I just looked through my archive and have gotten about one useful anonymous comment in my three years of running this blog.

So, no more anonymous comments. If you want to comment here, get a Google or OpenID.

MaraDNS 1.3.02 released; Blogger borked

MaraDNS 1.3.02 has been released. This is a testing release; this test adds a number of features which have not been fully tested and will add new bugs. For example, the special "version.maradns" query does not work if MaraDNS does not serve any zone files.

The release is available here:

http://www.maradns.org/downlod.html

Scroll down to "testing release".

From the changelog:

• The recursive resolver can now use custom root servers for subtrees of the DNS space; for example root_servers["local."] = "10.1.2.3"
• Windows port now compiles with -Os, resulting in a smaller Windows binary (actually, when I built the 1.2.12.04 binary, I set this parameter by hand; now it's the default Windows build flag)
• Windows port now uses pthreads-w32 2.8 instead of pthreads-w32 2.6
• csv2 parsing code updated to always allow and always ignore commented tildes
• Bugfix: Star records that aren't in an authoritative zone now work
• MaraDNS now will not waste time trying to find authoritative records if there are no authoritative records to find
• Some minor webpage updates
• Troubleshooting guide added to tutorial

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It would seem that Blogger is currently broken when running the Spanish (Latin America) language version of Firefox on Linux. I was unable to log in to edit this blog; I finally had to use the English version of Firefox on Windows XP to publish this blog.



- Sam