After several years of silence I'm about to release
a new version of udns, with just one bugfix and a change
from sequentional queue IDs for queries to random, using
a simple pseudo-random number generator by Bob Jenkins.

This affects queueIDs _only_, not source port, because
by design udns uses just one port for all queries.

The whole thing is still inherently insecure, even for
source port randomisation, as has been already said
several times - _all_ "simple" DNS resolves today are
vulnerable to attacks on high-bandwidth network such
as a typical LAN.  So this change is in fact not an
improvement, even if it feels like that.

I also plan to address a few defects and suggestions
I received during all these years.

Not that I'm saying udns should now enter Debian,
just adding some information to the bug report.

Thanks!

/mjt



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