Posadis 0.60.3 / Poslib 1.0.3 released!

Hello everybody,

Yes, it's that time again: a new Posadis/Poslib/Dnsquery/Mfedit release! 
From http://www.posadis.org/news/posadis-0.60.3-announcement.php:

> As the resolver part of Posadis has been getting more and more user 
> feedback, some reliability issues have emerged lately that this 
> release is meant to address. Particularly, users of Posadis 0.60.x 
> have reported 100% CPU usage issues and, in some cases, crashes. Now, 
> a lot of problems have already been fixed, though some issues are 
> still being reported. I released 0.60.3 because it seems the problems 
> I can easily reproduce myself are probably fixed by now. I /know/ that 
> there are still issues left, and I'll certainly do some further 
> fixing, hoping to pull a new, even more reliable release soon. For 
> feedback, please go to the Posadis 0.60.3 release topic 
> <https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1048039&forum_id=76418> 
> on the Posadis forums.
>
> This release features new releases of the Poslib, Posadis, Dnsquery 
> and Mfedit packages. You can get the latest versions of your favorite 
> DNS packages from the Posadis.org download page 
> <http://www.posadis.org/download.php>.
>
>
>     Changes in 0.60.3
>
> Most importantly: resolver fixes and automatic serial increase in the 
> Master File Editor.
>
>
>       Posadis 0.60.3 changes
>
> Many changes in the resolving department mostly. Some new features 
> include rudimentary cache statistics and DNS server detection for 
> Windows.
>
>     * Fixed bug where overriding forwarding rules wouldn't work in
>       most cases
>     * Fixed crash when defining child before parent due to parent
>       pointer not being set
>     * Be less picky about receiving forwarded answers
>     * Yet some more s/authoritive/authoritative
>     * Make posask/poshost support multiple servers to query
>     * Fixed crash for embedded config settings without a value
>     * Clarified error messages in master file comments
>     * Fixed error in Posadisrc example: zone_update_ttl should have
>       been update_ttl
>     * Plugin dir is now also appended if you have nonstandard dirs
>     * Added ability to handle -1 for max_tcp_conns
>     * Fixed serial number check for secondary code: only /newer/
>       serials will actually cause an update.
>     * Fixed bug where the cache would _never_ be cleaned up
>     * Added cache statistics
>     * If we run out of patience, we should return SRVFAIL
>     * Fixed bug where cache-ns items would expire from cache
>     * Fixed hashvector bug: inconsistent use of treshold, ultimately
>       able to cause crashes and 100% CPU usage
>     * Removed 'filing for removal' messages if not in debug mode
>     * Make sure we don't get stuck with incomplete unrepairable cache
>       info
>     * Fixed possible problem with domain names getting lost from the
>       cache removal queue
>     * Fixed bug where implicitly created domain names would not be
>       added to the cache removal list
>
>
>       Poslib 1.0.3 changes
>
> Some very minor changes here.
>
>     * Fixed bug where queries with the RD bit would be answered,
>       possibly causing a flood in combination with IP spoofing (fixed
>       in 1.0.2-1).
>     * Fixed bug where, if Posadis is at its max number of threads and
>       it receives a message with size smaller than the buffer size,
>       the ID with which an answer is sent back is wrong (fixed in
>       1.0.2-1).
>     * Fixed bug where posthreads would neither be joined nor detached,
>       causing a memory leak (fixed in 1.0.2-1).
>     * Fix check for -lpthread on Linux
>     * Fixed bug where "no threads left" error answer code would assert
>       the question list being nonempty.
>     * Made the fix for non-detached posthreads more Borland
>       C++/pthreadVC.dll-proof (detaching a joined thread apparently
>       results in undefined behavior; for Borland C++ this means a crash).
>     * Removed erroneous in_addr6 references in Windows IPv6 code
>     * Added poslib_config_init() function to reset config values
>     * Made poslib/server/server.h include configuration.h
>     * Added configuration.h to poslib/server/server.h
>     * Fixed bug for addr/length-type IP ranges
>
>
>       Dnsquery 0.60.3 changes
>
> Some small changes to make the output look better.
>
>     * Now correctly display whether tcp or udp was used
>     * Display time query took in advanced mode
>     * Cleaned up spacing a bit
>     * Display 'querying ...' message
>     * 'Copy to clipboard' functionality
>     * Fixed auto-PTR-selection after loading the QTYPE from a
>       configuration file (again? yes, again)
>
>
>       Mfedit 0.60.3 changes
>
> Automatic serial increase functionality. Really neat!
>
>     * Added automatical serial number increase functionality
>     * No longer clean undo list after saving (doesn't actually make
>       sense?)
>     * Now display our own actual icon in the about box rather than
>       some art.gnome.org background ;-)
>

Grab your builds and let me know about your mileage!



Meilof
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