Re: Bug#494043: ITP: ozymandns -- An experimental DNS server and miscellaneous DNS tools
On 06/08/08 at 23:17 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> 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.
Confirmed. And it hasn't been fixed.
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