Re: Bug#494043: ITP: ozymandns -- An experimental DNS server and miscellaneous DNS tools
Jacob wrote:
>Package: wnpp
>Severity: wishlist
>Owner: Jacob Appelbaum <jacob@appelbaum.net>
>
>
>* Package name : ozymandns
> Version : 0.0.1
> Upstream Author : Dan Kaminsky <dan@doxpara.com>
>* URL : http://www.doxpara.com/ozymandns_src_0.1.tgz
>* License : (Currently consulting with upstream for explicit
>* license)
> Programming Lang: (C, Perl)
> Description : An experimental DNS server and miscellaneous DNS tools
>
>OzymanDNS is a suite of tools for experimenting with DNS. It includes a
>number of tools:
>
> aska.pl - DNS File/Stream Sender
> geta.pl - DNS File/Stream Receiver
> nomde.pl - Experimental DNS Server
> droute.pl - Reliable DNS Transport for standard input/output
> glance.c - Represents IP addresses as dates
>
>More information about all of these tools can be found in Dan's Black
>Ops DNS 2004 CCC Congress slides:
>http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan/files/297-black-ops-of-dns-slides.pdf
Hmmm. I used to run this version of ozymandns to provide IP-over-DNS
style services, and it was far from stable. It would often crash, drop
connections or chew lots of CPU for no apparent reason. Unless things
have improved substantially since, I would recommend strongly against
adding these to the archive.
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
"We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could
ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews
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