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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    djbwares version 6
From:       Jonathan de Boyne Pollard via freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers () freebsd ! org>
Date:       2017-08-08 8:45:24
Message-ID: a7b15fc6-cb43-75ff-d45f-68ab43199e9b () NTLWorld ! COM
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djbwares is now at version 6.

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/djbwares/
* http://jdebp.info./Softwares/djbwares/

The main changes here are in dnscache and ftpd.

dnscache now has a built-in AAAA resource record for localhost, like it 
already had a built-in A resource record.  I've slightly improved the 
way that it caches AAAA resource record sets, to match the way that it 
was handling A resource record sets.  And it now caches SOA resource 
records.  There are also some minor improvements to the logging to 
decode SRV, A, and AAAA records rather than print them in raw 
hexadecimal format.

The changes to ftpd were motivated by my pointing several WWW browsers 
at a publicfile FTP site and discovering that the WWW browsers adhere to 
the RFCs far less than they used to at the turn of the century.  You can 
read some of the saddening discoveries in the Hall of Shame.  I have 
enhanced publicfile ftpd to support OPTS, FEAT, SIZE, EPSV, and HOST; to 
interoperate better with some faulty FTP ALGs that cannot cope with an 
FTP server that one does not need to log in to; to interoperate better 
with some faulty WWW browsers that misuse CWD as a type testing 
mechanism; and to log things more clearly in order to diagnose such 
faults from server logs.  HOST support means that ftpd supports virtual 
hosting on FTP, which is explained in the manual, although it is hard to 
find any FTP client that employs this.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/web-browser-ftp-hall-of-shame.html
* http://jdebp.info./FGA/web-browser-ftp-hall-of-shame.html

A further minor addition is a host command, a subset of the host 
commands from ISC and from KnotDNS that uses the same DNS client library 
from djbdns as all of the other djbdns query tools do.  Of course, the 
conventional djbdns client tools have a simpler syntax and more regular 
behaviours than the host command, and are preferable.  Moreover, the 
subset excludes rarities that djbdns has never supported, such as non-IN 
class queries.
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