Software update: MaraDNS 1.1.91

MaraDNS can, as the name suggests, set up a DNS. The program is written with the premise of creating a secure and compact DNS. For example, it uses its own library to prevent buffer overflows and does not run in a root account but as an unprivileged user. The developers have released version 1.1.91 in the unstable branch with the following changes:

Version 1.1.91:

• Made all man page headings all caps, to be consistent with standard man page style.
• Updated “unsupported features” part of MaraDNS man page to point out that 1.2 now supports more non-RFC1035 DNS features
• Plain text documents in a more easily found directory (doc/en/text instead of doc/en/tutorial/text).
• Added a modified version of Paul Sowden and Peter-Paul Koch’s styleswitcher.js file so that people who need a large font to read a web page can get the large font with just one click.
• Updated the authoritative and recursive tutorial documents to cover the case of wanting a recursive name server to have private host names.
• Explicitly tell the user /etc/mararc is not being replaced during make install process.
• Updated the FAQ for version 1.2 of MaraDNS.
• Split up the DNS introduction document and the list of all tutorials, usage guides, and man pages.
• Added makefile in webpage document (now I have a one-command way of updating the MaraDNS webpage).
• Spelling errors checked and corrected in all tutorial and man page documents.

Version 1.1.90:

• Fixed some bugs in the ej2man script; the man pages now look nicer.
• Added a new EJ tag: HIBIT; this allows some EJ output to contain hi-bit characters (such as HTML pages) while other EJ output has equivalent content with no hi-bit characters (such as man pages, which don’t take well to non-ASCII)
• Fixed rendering problems with the pdf manpage reference (I updated ps2pdf to the one from the latest 8.53 Ghostscript) and added the csv2_txt man page to this reference (HIBIT makes this now possible).
• Renamed security_design.html security.html to make it clear this is a document about MaraDNS’ security.

Version 1.1.61:

• Document minor updates: default value of timestamp_type is now five (this was changed in 1.1.60); Clarify that maradns needs to be restarted to reload zones in DNSslave document; corrected misspelled words and minor grammatical errors in the Quick Start guide
• Mac OS X port: MaraDNS sucessfully compiles on Mac OS X (Darwin) again; all compile time warnings removed.
• MinGW32 port: Changed port to use #ifdef statements instead of a patch to make source Win32-compatible; this allows me to make source changes without having to constantly update the mingw32 patch.

Version 1.1.60:

• Authoritative tutorial expanded and updated
• DNS master document written; DNS tcp file updated
• Procedure for making text files updated
• Text files for tutorial added
• Examples added to “dangling” document
• Updated spec file to include maradns.zoneserver startup script
• Removed OSRC (open-rsc.org doesn’t resolve) and Alternic (alternic.org owned by squatter) from example full mararc file
• Added document on being a DNS slave
• Verified that shell scripts in dnsslave document work
• Created document on updating from MaraDNS 1.0 to 1.2 (most of the time, change nothing)
• Many other tutorial improvements
• Verified spelling of all tutorial documents
• mararc man page correction: csv1 zone files are for MaraDNS 1.0, not 1.X
• HR tag added to ej specification.