Re: Bug#494043: ITP: ozymandns -- An experimental DNS server and miscellaneous DNS tools
I've found that while ozymandns is useful for tunneling some things in a pinch, I've had a lot more luck with running iodine as a daemon and might suggest checking it out.
I tend to favor it for experimentation as it's packaged in sid already, is actively maintained, and has support for using the NULL RR type allowing much more data to fit in a "downstream" response.
Cheers,
jonathan
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 11:17:56PM +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.
>
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