Package: djbdns Severity: wishlist Tags: patch I've been using a home built deb of djbdns for some time with some of Jonathan de Boyne Pollard's CNAME and other patches. As I move my systems over to Squeeze, I'd also like to move the DNS server over to the standard package, to make use of your great work with dbndns. Would it be possible to include these fixes in the stock Debian package, please ? Patches are attached to address the following problems:
dnscache has lots of problems with client-side aliases ("CNAME" records).
dnscache doesn't fully implement "forwardonly" mode, creating the
possibility of other people's published delegation data causing a
proxy loop.
tinydns truncates CNAME alias chains and ends up being "lame".
tinydns-data doesn't handle semantic errors.
http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/Softwares/djbdns/ has
more details on the above changes. I don't actually use tinydns with my
current hosting but have included the patches I used to find worthwhile
when I did.
I've also included alternative patches for dbndns with the IPv6 patch,
I don't know whether you'd prefer to keep these changes to dbndns if
you accept them, or include them in djbdns too.
Thanks
Nick
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