[MaraDNS list] How to resolve external domain names using MaraDNS in windows 7

[Vinay H S]

I have installed maradns in windows 7 machine, I have configured it, It can
able to handle internal requests, But not external ones

*My IP address: 192.168.1.196*

*marac file*

ipv4_bind_addresses = "127.0.0.1"
timestamp_type = 2
random_seed_file = "secret.txt"

csv2 = {}
csv2["myapp.com."] = "db.lan.txt"

upstream_servers = {} # Initialize dictionary variable
upstream_servers["."] = "8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4"

*db.lan.txt*

private.% 192.168.1.21 ~
blog.% 192.168.1.16 ~


I have installed deadwood also.

*Deadwood configuration: dwoodr3c.*

ipv4_bind_addresses = "127.0.0.1"

chroot_dir = "/etc/maradns"

recursive_acl = "127.0.0.1"

upstream_servers = {}

upstream_servers["."] = "8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4"

recursive_acl = "192.168.1.196/24"


For *external requests*, its giving me the below error

C:\Program Files\maradns-2-0-06-win32>askmara.exe Agoogle.com.
# Querying the server with the IP 127.0.0.1
# Remote server said: REFUSED
# NS replies:
# AR replies:

*For internal requests, Its working fine as below*

C:\Program Files\maradns-2-0-06-win32>askmara.exe Aprivate.myapp.com.
# Querying the server with the IP 127.0.0.1
# Question: Aprivate.myapp.com.private.myapp.com. +86400 a 192.168.1.21
# NS replies:
#myapp.com. +86400 ns synth-ip-7f000001.myapp.com.
# AR replies:
#synth-ip-7f000001.myapp.com. +86400 a 127.0.0.1

And when i start the server, *I am getting a prompt with a warning as well*

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How to resolve this issue.



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[Sam Trenholme]

Post by Vinay H S
I have installed maradns in windows 7 machine, I have configured it, It can
able to handle internal requests, But not external ones
ipv4_bind_addresses = "127.0.0.1"

The IP address "127.0.0.1" is the loopback IP address. Let me explain...

Once upon a time, there was a domain called blackdown.org owned by one
Karl Asha. They were in charge of the project porting Java to Linux
(which, at the time, meant making binaries since Java was proprietary
at the time), as well as having their own IRC network which I never
cared for (then again, I never cared for IRC).

One domain name Karl set up was "warez.blackdown.org" ("warez" being
then-slang for pirated content), which resolved to 127.0.0.1. Karl
had a page with chat logs where he made fun of people who got upset
that warez.blackdown.org was resolving to their own computer.

The joke is this: 127.0.0.1 is a special IP that means "the same
computer". When you make a connection to 127.0.0.1, you are simply
making a network connection back to the computer which started the
connection. The 127.0.0.1 on my netbook connects to that netbook; the
127.0.0.1 on my bigger notebook connects to that notebook.

You will need to bind to another IP; "0.0.0.0" means "all the IPs this
computer has" (unlike MaraDNS, Deadwood allows you to use "0.0.0.0"
since it shouldn't cause the problems 0.0.0.0 causes in Mara).

Back to Karl: warez.blackdown.org no longer exists, Windows won't even
resolve names like that any more, Karl Asha has disappeared from the
internet, blackdown.org no longer exists and was bought by a
cybersquatter, Java is now open-source so it doesn't need to be ported
in the Blackdown manner, and the LinuxNET IRC network no longer exists
(good riddance to bad rubbish, if you ask me).

I hope Karl has grown up over the years and no longer considers those
kind of childish jokes funny. I also think it is sad when someone
like Karl who was a big part of the early Linux community falls off of
the face of the Internet, the way so many people do.

- Sam

[Rick Moen]

Post by Sam Trenholme
One domain name Karl set up was "warez.blackdown.org" ("warez" being
then-slang for pirated content), which resolved to 127.0.0.1. Karl
had a page with chat logs where he made fun of people who got upset
that warez.blackdown.org was resolving to their own computer.

I know this makes me a wicked, nasty person, but I always found the
results friggin' hilarious. Some of the material's still available:

http://www.petting-zoo.net/~deadbeef/archive/150.html

[Sam Trenholme]

To be honest, I had a really unpleasant experience on Karl's IRC
network which left a pretty bad taste in my mouth and resulted in me
judging his other actions more harshly than I otherwise would have.

I ended up going public about my unpleasant experience with his
network and someone ended up inviting me to go to the Linpeople IRC
network instead, where people were a lot nicer. Other people agreed:
Linpeople still exists today as Freenode; the LinuxNET IRC network (as
well as all of Karl's other Internet projects) is at most a footnote
in Linux's history.

The form of that joke I found funny is telling people trying to break
in to computers arcane commands telling them to do really stupid
things.

For example, there was once a Bugtraq posting describing a security
weakness in Apache for Windows where people could look at the
filesystem by going to http://victim.com/...... Well, some people went
to that literal web page thinking they would get some elite hacking
information or something, so the admin set up this page:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000914173946/http://www.victim.com/....../

- Sam

Post by Rick Moen
I know this makes me a wicked, nasty person, but I always found the
http://www.petting-zoo.net/~deadbeef/archive/150.html