<h2>What is MaraDNS ?</h2>

MaraDNS is a package that implements the Domain Name Service (DNS), an
essential internet service.  MaraDNS has the following advantages:

<ul>
<li><b>Secure</b>. MaraDNS has the best <A 
href="security.html">security history</A> of
any currently maintained DNS server; there have been no exploitable
security holes found in a stable release of MaraDNS that were caused by 
MaraDNS' code.  
<li><b>Supported</b>.
MaraDNS has a long history of being maintained and updated.  MaraDNS was 
originally created in 2001.  MaraDNS 1.0 was released in 2002
and MaraDNS 1.2 was released in December of 2005.  MaraDNS has been
extensively tested, both with a SQA process and with over four years of
real-world use.  MaraDNS continues to be fully supported: The most recent
release was done on August 14, 2006.
<li><b>Easy to use</b>.  A basic recursive configuration needs only a 
single three-line configuration file.  A basic authoritative configuration
needs only a four-line configuration file and a one-line zone file.
MaraDNS is fully documented, with both easy-to-follow tutorials and a 
complete and up-to-date reference manual.
<li><b>Small</b>.  MaraDNS is well suited for embedded applications 
and other environments where the server must use the absolute minimum 
number of resources possible.
MaraDNS' binary is smaller than
that of any other currently maintained recursive DNS server.
<li><b>Open Source</b>.  MaraDNS is fully open-source, The license is a
<A href=license.html>two-clause BSD license</A> that is almost
identical to the 
<A href="http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html">FreeBSD
license</A>.
</li>
</ul>

A full comparison between MaraDNS and other DNS servers is available in the
<A href="advocacy.html">advocacy document</A>.

<h2>Mailing list</h2>
To join the mailing list, send an email to 
<A href="mailto:list-request@maradns.org">list-request@maradns.org</A> with
the word "subscribe" in the subject and body of the message.
<p>
Mailing list archives are here:
<A href="http://marc.10east.com/?l=maradns-list">Archive #1</A>,
<A href="http://hotaru.chaosring.org/~sam/archive.txt">Archive #2</A>.

<H2>Special Thanks</H2>

I would like to thank <A href="http://www.webconquest.com/">WebConquest</A> for
hosting MaraDNS.org's web page.

