[rbldnsd] Announce: rbldnsd-0.995

[Michael Tokarev]

The 0.995 release of rbldnsd is out.

This is a "new features" release, which implements:

  - EDNS0 (RFC2671) large packet support (max 2048 bytes),
    so clients who understands EDNS0 can receive more
    information in a single packet.  Since rbldnsd does
    not have TCP mode (and it will be overkill for a DNSBL),
    the only way to to be able to produce really large
    answers (eg, with alot of NS records) is to use larger
    (more than standard 512 bytes) UDP buffers.

  - NS glue records.  Finally, it is ok to have NS records
    to be in the same zone as other data.  I still don't
    recommend this approach, but it makes simple cases
    (when you assign A record for your base zone and use
    it as nameserver) even simpler, and makes it possible
    to use rbldnsd without any help from other nameserver.

  - ACL (Access Control Lists, IPv4 only for now, still
    experimental) support.  It is now possible to specify
    custom behaviour based on the client IP address (per
    zone or globally), incl. ignoring certain clients entirely,
    refusing queries from them or returning specific answers
    regardless of whenever the "object being queried" is
    listed or not (remember, we're talking about a dnsBL
    here, not about a DNSserver).

Two bugfixes previously released as versions 0.994a and
0.994b are also included in this release.

If you don't plan to use the new features, there's absolutely
no reason to upgrade to 0.995 release (but it is still very
good idea to upgrade to at least 0.994b due to bugfixes).

As usual, rbldnsd homepage is available at

  http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/rbldnsd.html

Enjoy.

/mjt