Journal Kiwi's Journal: About MaraDNS
Before implementing MaraDNS, I first wrote a buffer-over resistant string library; this library was written, documented, and tested in a spam protection application, which, alas, never caught on.
I rested on this string library for approximately two months; then a thread was started in Bugtraq that we must have a DNS server that is
- Not BIND
- Open source
This thread was all the encouragment I needed to start my DNS server project, MaraDNS, which is (at the time of this journal) in the beta-testing stage.
Like any open source project, this project is only very slow building a following and getting help from volunterrs around the net. A lot of people are helping with the documentation for MaraDNS; translating it in to other languages. Other people are providing invaluable bug reports. The collabarative nature of open source devlopment on the Internet is a reality.
Of course, it is an injustice to plug my own DNS server without menting some of the other DNS projects out there. DjbDNS is already well-known; people either love or hate Dan Bernstien; keep in mind that the license is not open-source. BIND 9 is a complete rewrite of BIND; it does not have the security history that previous version of BIND had. There is also posadis, who are about where MaraDNS was six months ago. I wish them the utmost of luck.
Oh, finally, MaraDNS doesn't support traditional BIND zone files. Yet.
- Sam
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