Re: "djbdns and nxdspecial patch"

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 08:48:33PM -0500, Mark Johnson wrote:
> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:48:33 -0500
> From: Mark Johnson <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: "djbdns and nxdspecial patch"
> To: [email protected]
> 
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Marco <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi, I would like to know if is there anyone of you that have original
> > dnscache-1.05-nxdspecial.patch file?
> 
> I can't find the original patch at the moment, but it seems to have
> been incorporated into various patch collections.  Shouldn't be too
> much trouble to separate it back out.  I think this might be most, if
> not all, of it:
> 
> http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=nxdspecial&sbtn=Search
> 
> > I'm interesting to apply these security patches to djbdns
> > http://www.your.org/dnscache/0001-dnscache-merge-similar-outgoing-queries.patch
> > http://www.your.org/dnscache/0002-dnscache-cache-soa-records.patch
> > (is there also a prepatched version:
> > http://www.your.org/dnscache/djbdns-1.05-with-patches.tar.gz)
> > and dnscache-1.05-nxdspecial.patch file.
> 
> Jeff King has an updated version of his query merging patch:
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=djbdns&m=123859517723684&w=1
> 
> Be aware of the possible performance impact:
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=djbdns&m=124047690620137&w=1

mmm, this argument is more complex for me and I do not understand....
> 
> > I have already tried to apply jumbo patch into pre-patched djbdns but it give me these
> > errors:
> 
> What functionality does the jumbo-p13 have that you're after?  I think
> Jos Backus included it in his jumbo-josb patch, bits of which I've
> merged into my djbdns fork:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/zinq
Ok, but zinq-djbdns integrates all importants security patch? It seem a
very good project!!!
> 
> > At this point I would like to try to applying only original
> > dnscache-1.05-nxdspecial.patch file into pre-patched security version of
> > djbdns.
> 
> I might see if I can extract that out of some of the patches that
> include it and get it to apply to zinq-djbdns.  I don't know that I'd
> merge it in and ship it, but that might give you what you're looking
> for.

... if yes , I will try to install zinq hoping in future it can do also
a functionality like nxdspecial patch.

Thanks Mark

Marco