Sam’s Blog

• MaraDNS and the Wikipedia I did not get a chance to update MaraDNS this month. The reason is because ... [Read more] (April 20, 2013)

• Deadwood update I have updated Deadwood to fix a long-standing bug resolving host names ... [Read more] (March 20, 2013)

• Deadwood update In today’s blog, I discuss today’s Deadwood update. The problem When I ... [Read more] (February 22, 2013)

• MaraDNS update MaraDNS update I have released MaraDNS 2.0.07. This release updates ... [Read more] (January 20, 2013)

• MaraDNS 1.3 end-of-life It may not be the end of the world today, but it is the end of MaraDNS 1.3.... [Read more] (December 21, 2012)
• Deadwood 3.2.03 released Deadwood has been updated. This is a bugfix-only release relative to ... [Read more] (December 20, 2012)

• Deadwood update After adding a domain to blacklist to my Deadwood server and restarting ... [Read more] (November 24, 2012)
• Deadwood and SHA-3 In today's blog, I discuss the possibility of updating Deadwood's ... [Read more] (November 02, 2012)

• Deadwood update Deadwood update In today's update of Deadwood, MaraDNS' recursive resolver:... [Read more] (October 28, 2012)
• Why use MaraDNS? I had a friend of mine recently ask me why MaraDNS is a DNS server worth ... [Read more] (October 06, 2012)

• MaraDNS update In today's blog, I describe the work I have done on MaraDNS, link to a new ... [Read more] (September 22, 2012)

• MaraDNS update MaraDNS non-update I have made a new snapshot of MaraDNS 2.0 here; this is ... [Read more] (August 27, 2012)
• MaraDNS update MaraDNS update I have finished up porting all of MaraDNS 2.0's SQA tests ... [Read more] (August 23, 2012)
• Server Fault Fail Over at Server Fault, someone resurrected a years-dead thread by claiming ... [Read more] (August 15, 2012)

• I no longer accept patches MaraDNS update I am letting the MaraDNS community know that I am no longer ... [Read more] (July 23, 2012)
• Deadwood update Deadwood update I have updated the patch resolving the problem Deadwood ... [Read more] (July 21, 2012)

• Deadwood update Deadwood update Earlier this month, Deadwood was unable to resolve es-us.... [Read more] (June 23, 2012)
• MaraDNS 1 End-of-life MaraDNS 1 end-of-life: June 21, 2015 Ten years ago today, I released ... [Read more] (June 21, 2012)

• MaraDNS update MaraDNS update I am in the slow process of updating MaraDNS for RHEL6-... [Read more] (May 21, 2012)

• EasyDNS and truncation I have updated Deadwood today. This will be my last MaraDNS and Deadwood ... [Read more] (April 24, 2012)
• Getting DNSSEC for MaraDNS I would love MaraDNS to have DNSSEC support. Unfortunately, I have bills ... [Read more] (April 03, 2012)
• MaraDNS now has funding In today's blog entry (for April 1, 2012), I discuss MaraDNS' funding and ... [Read more] (April 01, 2012)

• MaraDNS: No DNSSEC In 2001, having a secure DNS server meant running a DNS server did not ... [Read more] (March 26, 2012)
• New MaraDNS CVE: 2012-1570 In today's blog entry, I discuss CVE-2012-1570 as well as Deadwood 2.3. ... [Read more] (March 22, 2012)
• DNS security comparison DNS security comparison I have compared the CVE history of four of the "... [Read more] (March 21, 2012)
• Deadwood update In today's blog entry, I describe this month's Deadwood update, as well as ... [Read more] (March 20, 2012)
• MaraDNS 1 update Security fix for MaraDNS 1: Maximum TTL is now one day, to avoid ghost ... [Read more] (March 17, 2012)
• MaraDNS 2.0.06 and 1.4.11 I have updated MaraDNS to use Deadwood 3.2.02. Deadwood 3.2.02 is a ... [Read more] (March 11, 2012)
• MaraDNS 1 has limited support This is a heads-up that MaraDNS 1 is no longer supported for anything ... [Read more] (March 03, 2012)
• MaraDNS donations In today's blog entry, I discuss why I have changed the link for making ... [Read more] (March 02, 2012)

• Deadwood 3.2.02 released I have released Deadwood 3.2.02 today. If all goes well, I will not have ... [Read more] (February 29, 2012)
• Deadwood update Today's update of Deadwood only updates the documentation: I make it clear ... [Read more] (February 28, 2012)
• Deadwood update; etc. In today's blog I mention a minor update I did to Deadwood yesterday, ... [Read more] (February 26, 2012)
• On Ghost Domains Earlier this month Haixin Duan, et al released the paper "Ghost Domain ... [Read more] (February 13, 2012)
• MaraDNS 2.0.05 released I have released MaraDNS 2.0.05 today. This release updates the recursive ... [Read more] (February 12, 2012)
• Deadwood update I recently mentioned that the changes to give Deadwood finer time stamps ... [Read more] (February 11, 2012)

• Deadwood update The code to give Deadwood finer timestamps has triggered a regression: For ... [Read more] (January 28, 2012)
• Deadwood update I have been improving Deadwood's resolution of domains with a bugfix as ... [Read more] (January 25, 2012)
• Deadwood update I have been updating the Deadwood documentation a little. In addition, I ... [Read more] (January 17, 2012)
• MaraDNS 1 update Hopefully the third time is the charm. While I added hash randomization to ... [Read more] (January 13, 2012)
• New Deadwood snapshot Here's a new FAQ question and answer for Deadwood: Records added to the ... [Read more] (January 06, 2012)
• Deadwood bug fixed I have fixed a bug in Deadwood: Srinivas Hebbar reported that Deadwood ... [Read more] (January 04, 2012)
• Welcome to 2012 In today's blog entry, I welcome my readers to twenty-twelve (2012) and ... [Read more] (January 01, 2012)

• MaraDNS 1 update Looking closely at the patch I applied yesterday, I realized that it had a ... [Read more] (December 30, 2011)
• MaraDNS 1 update One issue with making software is that a responsible programmer takes ... [Read more] (December 29, 2011)
• 2011 Wrap-up Now that the year is wrapping up, here is a look at what I accomplished ... [Read more] (December 24, 2011)
• Deadwood 3.1.03 released I have somewhat of a tradition of releasing new versions of MaraDNS on ... [Read more] (December 21, 2011)
• Deadwood update Yesterday, I mentioned that there was a bug in MaraDNS (OK, Deadwood). I ... [Read more] (December 18, 2011)
• Deadwood update Today's update to Deadwood does not update any source code; what I have ... [Read more] (December 11, 2011)
• MaraDNS and Paypal On Facebook, my friend Sean Lynch posted a Paypal horror story of someone ... [Read more] (December 07, 2011)
• MaraDNS funding ; etc. MaraDNS funding Last month's funding drive gave me enough money to devote ... [Read more] (December 01, 2011)

• New Deadwood snapshot In today's snapshot of Deadwood, I have fixed a bug where the CNAME of ... [Read more] (November 30, 2011)
• Deadwood update Better timestamps I mentioned in a recent blog entry my plans to implement ... [Read more] (November 29, 2011)
• MaraDNS can redirect domains Phil Harlow had an interesting problem which MaraDNS beautifully solves. ... [Read more] (November 28, 2011)
• Deadwood 3.1.01 released While everyone else in the USA has been celebrating Thanksgiving, I have ... [Read more] (November 27, 2011)
• Thanksgiving thoughts MaraDNS Funding received from my November 2011 fund drive is being used to ... [Read more] (November 23, 2011)
• New Deadwood snapshot I am beginning the work of having Deadwood check for a CNAME record in the ... [Read more] (November 19, 2011)
• Deadwood snapshot In today's snapshot of Deadwood, I have added a patch that fixes an issue ... [Read more] (November 13, 2011)
• MaraDNS 2.0.04 In light of Nicholas Bamber's very kind donation, my work on MaraDNS ... [Read more] (November 12, 2011)
• MaraDNS update MaraDNS 1.4.07 Because of a very very generous donation from Nicholas ... [Read more] (November 11, 2011)
• Deadwood 3.0.05 released My funding drive for November 2011 has so far been very successful. ... [Read more] (November 10, 2011)
• On Flattr Flattr and Kachingle are two proposed systems for giving money to creators ... [Read more] (November 09, 2011)
• Call for donations (Update: I have gotten a very kind donation from Bradley at Northtech. ... [Read more] (November 08, 2011)
• Deadwood 3.0.04 I have released Deadwood 3.0.04 today. This release fixes some bugs and ... [Read more] (November 01, 2011)

• Deadwood hacking One issue that has been annoying me is DNS timeouts wating to get a PTR ("... [Read more] (October 27, 2011)
• MaraDNS update Karim Malhas has reported a bug with MaraDNS' csv2 parser when using the /... [Read more] (October 09, 2011)
• MaraDNS update Thanks to a contribution from a sponsor, I have been able to allocate some ... [Read more] (October 08, 2011)
• MaraDNS update I have fixed the following issues in today's release of MaraDNS: Nicholas ... [Read more] (October 05, 2011)

• Deadwood update I have finished up all of the work I am going to do for MaraDNS and ... [Read more] (September 12, 2011)
• Deadwood update I am slowly but surely going through the bugs people have been reporting ... [Read more] (September 05, 2011)

• MaraDNS 2.0.03 released I have released MaraDNS 2.0.03 today. This incorporates six months' worth ... [Read more] (August 05, 2011)

• Deadwood 3.0.03 released RFC2181 has this bit of text: "When a DNS client receives a reply with TC ... [Read more] (July 22, 2011)
• Deadwood bug I have discovered a bug blocking the 3.0.03 release of Deadwood: answers.... [Read more] (July 14, 2011)
• MaraDNS update I have updated both MaraDNS and Deadwood today. In today's snapshot of ... [Read more] (July 08, 2011)

• Deadwood update I have spent all afternoon going through Deadwood's SQA tests to update ... [Read more] (June 24, 2011)
• MaraDNS update In today's snapshot of MaraDNS: Certain TXT record parsing errors now tell ... [Read more] (June 10, 2011)

• MaraDNS; the PROTECT act As I blogged about two weeks ago, I would not make any updates to MaraDNS ... [Read more] (May 27, 2011)
• MaraDNS update In today's snapshot of MaraDNS, I have reinstated the "PayPal donate" ... [Read more] (May 13, 2011)

• New MaraDNS snapshot I have released a snapshot of MaraDNS today that slightly updates the ... [Read more] (April 29, 2011)
• MaraDNS & Deadwood update In today's snapshot of MaraDNS, I have fixed an error reported by Bryan ... [Read more] (April 15, 2011)

• Another Deadwood bug A lot of the headache of making a recursive DNS server is dealing with ... [Read more] (March 25, 2011)
• MaraDNS updates As I blogged about before, I have made the transition from CentOS 5 to ... [Read more] (March 24, 2011)
• New MaraDNS snapshot In today's snapshot of MaraDNS, I have updated the documentation (namely, ... [Read more] (March 18, 2011)
• Deadwood 2.3.07 released As described in the MaraDNS schedule, this is a day I have set aside to ... [Read more] (March 04, 2011)

• New MaraDNS snapshot In today's snapshot, I have finished resolving William Summers' issue with ... [Read more] (February 18, 2011)
• MaraDNS schedule As I mentioned a while ago, MaraDNS is now stable and the only changes ... [Read more] (February 18, 2011)
• All MaraDNS issues resolved I have just uploaded a second snapshot today which resolved the final open ... [Read more] (February 18, 2011)
• Deadwood now installs Last December, Mike Sands pointed out that the Deadwood install is not ... [Read more] (February 17, 2011)
• New MaraDNS snapshot A while ago, Nino pointed out on the mailing list that MaraDNS is not ... [Read more] (February 15, 2011)
• New MaraDNS snapshot Last November, William Summers pointed out that MaraDNS has issues with ... [Read more] (February 12, 2011)
• MaraDNS outstanding bugs Here is my backlog of MaraDNS bugs to fix: There is an issue with maradns ... [Read more] (February 07, 2011)
• MaraDNS 2.0.02 released I have just released MaraDNS 2.0. This has the following updates: ... [Read more] (February 05, 2011)

• MaraDNS & Deadwood update In 2002, when I rewrote the compression code for MaraDNS for the first ... [Read more] (January 29, 2011)
• Win32 Deadwood build Wayne, on the MaraDNS mailing list, requested a Windows-compatible build ... [Read more] (January 22, 2011)
• Deadwood snapshot update In today's Deadwood snapshot, I have fixed an issue I saw a couple of ... [Read more] (January 16, 2011)
• Deadwood update I made a mistake in applying Yarin's plain diff patch against Deadwood the ... [Read more] (January 15, 2011)

• End-of-2010 MaraDNS status Since MaraDNS 2.0 has been released, I am, as I promised to do back in ... [Read more] (December 24, 2010)