MaraDNS is another DNS offering [LWN.net]

From:		Sam Trenholme
To:		letters@lwn.net
Subject:		MaraDNS is another DNS offering
Date:		Sun, 19 Jan 2003 07:29:57 -0600 (CST)

I have been working on MaraDNS for nearly two years
now. A 1.0 release was released over six months ago,
and I am currently working on a 1.2 release. MaraDNS
is both an authoritative and recursive DNS server, is
written with security in mind, and the 1.0 release is
public domain; the 1.2 release will be released under
a simple BSD license.

Unlike PowerDNS, it has recursive DNS and is free.
Unlike Oak DNS, it is written in C which is both
high-performance and portable. In fact, MaraDNS is
twice as fast as BIND and three times as fast as
TinyDNS for fetching authoritative DNS records.

It would seem that I am not marketing MaraDNS well
enough, since your editors seem to be ignorant of its
existance.

More information is at http://www.maradns.org/

Please keep my email address private; I am getting
enough spam as it is.

- Sam

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Using MaraDNS when offline?

Posted Jan 31, 2003 13:50 UTC (Fri) by Wills (guest, #1813) [Link]

MaraDNS looks interesting but can it be setup (no mention in the FAQ) to continue working offline as a caching DNS server for the names it has already learned, i.e. if you disconnect from the internet is it possible to make MaraDNS save the DNS records it has learned into a file which is automatically reloaded the next time you connect to the internet, and also to use that file to make it continue responding while you are offline to DNS queries for those names it knew about before you went offline? This would be similar to but more useful than the modified dialup DJB dnscache which saves DNS queries when you go offline and reloads them when you go online but which is not able to answer queries on those known names while you are offline. I'd use it with dummy IPs for transparent offline cached web access although there are many other interesting uses if you think about it.

Using MaraDNS when offline?

Posted Dec 6, 2005 22:40 UTC (Tue) by samiam (guest, #34378) [Link]

Pdnsd is the only DNS server I know of that does what you asked for. There are a lot of people who ask for a lot of features. Bottom line: Show me the money. I may add new features if there is enough community demand for them; I'm going to, after 1.2 is released, set up a PhpBB board on MaraDNS.org to get a better sense of what the community wants.

- Sam (the MaraDNS guy)