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December 19th, 2019
Today I installed NetBSD and noticed I don't really know too much about this
BSD. It was sorta hard. But I finally managed to install Delphinusdnsd to
it and it prompted for some makefile changes. So then I'll be revisiting
all test platforms tomorrow and on the 26th and 27th after which I will
tag a release in the tree and make the tarball available. Unfortunately
christmas is in the way or else I'd have a few more days. And commitments
after the 27th until new years take away also a few more days. If you want
to try out Delphinusdnsd grab a snapshot and test. It's likely not going to
change in a big way in these last three days. If you'd rather wait for the
1.4 tarball, there is eight days left to wait for that.
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December 15th, 2019
Due to some family commitments I have to move the release closer to christmas
and the 29th which is what I would have chosen is a sunday. So it'll be the
27th (a friday). So the 26th and 27th will be final tests, next week the
16th throughout the 21st will be any last minute coding changes.
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December 12th, 2019
Christmas is in 12+1 days (depending where you live). It's only proper that
we provide a christmas tree to lay our presents under. I got one! It exploits
the fact that dddctl query does not filter escape codes (will be fixed in 1.5.0
hopefully). Here is the xmas zone in case you wanted to use it:
zone "xmas" {
xmas,soa,86400,omega.virgostar.net.,hostmaster.centroid.eu.,2019122401,3
600,1800,1209600,86400
xmas,ns,86400,beta.internal.centroid.eu.
xmas,txt,86400," ^[[32m^[[31;1m*^[[32m^[[0m"
xmas,txt,86400," ^[[32m***^[[0m"
xmas,txt,86400," ^[[32m**^[[31;1m*^[[32m**^[[0m"
xmas,txt,86400," ^[[32m*^[[31;1m*^[[32m*****^[[0m"
xmas,txt,86400," ^[[32m******^[[31;1m*^[[32m**^[[0m"
xmas,txt,86400," ^[[32m***^[[31m*^[[32m*******^[[0m"
xmas,txt,86400," ^[[33m*^[[0m"
}
Have a merry time! And please, don't drink and drive!
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December 10th, 2019
Seasons Greetings!
We're on schedule for the 1.4.0 release in exactly three weeks. There is stuff
that I'm aware isn't working right (like proper tsig responses), and if they
don't make it in for 1.4.0 then they won't be in until 1.5.0. That's just the
matter of fact. I'm testing delphinusdnsd on as many platforms and
architectures as possible and every time I do I find something new that's
either a bug or lacking. Realistically I don't have time to start any grand
new things in these last three weeks. In exactly 2 weeks is christmas eve.
This will be an interruption of a few days too.
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December 10th, 2019
Revision 1.89 in delphinusdnsd.c broke descriptor passed AXFR's. Tomorrows
snapshot should have the fix. If you used a different port than 53 as an
AXFR port then it would have still worked. Unearthed when I wanted to try out
drill on FreeBSD/arm with my raspberry pi. This took the entire morning in
debugging and code reading to find the bug. I finally found it with a diff
between December 5th snapshot and todays snapshot.
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December 7th, 2019
Yesterday I got my Raspberry Pi (v1) out and did some changes to the Linux
port of delphinusdnsd. This morning when testing the snapshot changes I
noticed I broke it. So tomorrows snapshot should work again. Fixes include:
- TCP should work (fixed yesterday)
- setproctitles's shouldn't chain (fixed today)
- some changes to have less warnings on compile in Linux
- ...
I have reflected all these changes on rhombus.centroid.eu which is a scaleway
ARM bare-metal host. Good thing I didn't put it in production yet. But you
can test it at port 2053 there. Cheers!
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November 30th, 2019
December means there is only about 2-3 weeks of testing left before I package
it all into a tarball and checksum it for the 1.4 release. This doesn't mean
I sit here waiting for that moment. Currently I'm patching the delphinusdnsd
against unaligned accesses as found on a MIPS64 machine of mine. In the
process it revealed that there is a problem with TSIG signing on the server
side. I've spent 24 hours on this problem already, it seems to be a byte
order translation problem because it pops up on another big endian host but
I haven't pinned it down yet. On little endian architectures the problem
doesn't show up. Which is weird because all values involved in the signing
process have to be big endian anyhow. Odd. This problem will take me into
next week. Thats the status update on the "testing".
Have a merry first advent as we count down the weeks to christmas.
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November 28th, 2019
Seasons greetings! I'm on the end run for testing 1.4. The version 1.3 is
totally outdated and it doesn't make sense anymore to install it. Be part
of the testing and install a snapshot if you want to try delphinusdnsd.
The 1.4 release will be on or before december 31st. Next week I'm going to
try to run delphinusdnsd entirely off all my nameservers. If it unearthes
any bugs, I'll be fixing those within reasonable time. Have a merry season!
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November 27th, 2019
In tomorrows snapshot there will be a change in delphinusdnsd. It was a change
that took 2 hours of inspecting, changing the code, and additional 30 minutes
was spent to test this. It's not a big change but it for the first time allows
multiple TXT records in a dns name.
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;centroid.eu. IN TXT
;; ANSWER SECTION:
centroid.eu. 86400 IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:5.9.87.75 ip6:2a01:4
f8:162:1167::2 ~all"
centroid.eu. 86400 IN TXT "My DNS Server is delphinusdnsd
on kite and trapezoid, I hope this was helpful!"
Like so, on the production nameservers kite and trapezoid at centroid.eu. Much
thanks to a user named PiRATA who lightly prodded this because I'm trying to
help with getting DKIM records going. This is likely the last "major" change
that I'M willing to do for this until 1.4, unless something urgent pops up.
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November 25th, 2019
Remotelog was added in June 28, 2011 and thus is over 8 years old.
It's time to remove it as since then syslog on openbsd has been
improved a lot. The OpenBSD syslogd got TCP support in december 2014
and improved since then. So our remotelog was much older and is
superfluous now. On top of that it used SHA1 HMAC which is outdated.
I'll do the changes this week.
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