Development History

What's out there?

You can download any version of logresolve from the download page.

logresolve 1.0 is available and has been since April 16, 1995.

logresolve 1.1 comes with Apache HTTPD.

logresolve 2.0 is currently in semi-permanent beta test state. It includes a persistent NDBM-based cache which can significantly enhance the speed of lookups.

logresolve 2.1 is the new entirely unstable version with loads of new features.

Current unstable version

2.1 is under development.

Current stable beta version

2.0b8

• Added flock() code for systems that don't have it in their system libraries (e.g. recent versions of Solaris). Thanks to James, Cat & Ken at UUNET Canada.
• Added fflush() before DBM initialization which apparently stops weird core dumps on Solaris. Thanks to James at UUNET Canada.

Version summary

Here's a summary of all pre-2.0 versions of logresolve. The Revisions columns list revisions of individual parts of the program. Tracking revisions like this proved to be messy and useless so I'm not doing it anymore.
logresolve 2.0b8 now comes with a .spec file so you can run 'rpm -tb logresolve_2.0b8.tar.gz' to generate an RPM file. Thanks to Ross Golder for this.
Key: Config / DBM / Hash table / IP / NS Record / Statistics / Text documentation

		Revisions
Version	Date	C	D	H	I	N	S	T	Notes
2.0b8	1997.07.23	5	3	2	2	3	0	2	Current version - see above for details.
2.0b7	1997.06.27	5	2	2	2	3	0	2	Bytecount to a file with '-c' option Command-line option parsing cleaned up
2.0b6	1997.05.22	4	2	2	2	3	0	2	getline() fixed Stupid behaviour when a line did not start with a digit fixed
2.0b5	1997.04.11	4	2	2	2	3	0	2	Filenames specified for input/output/stats New hash function accomodates up to 64k buckets Now passes -Wall -pedantic -ansi (on my machine, at least) Other miscellaneous changes to facilitate future development
2.0b4	1997.01.02	3	2	1	2	2	0	1	Dependency cleanups - now passes nicely with -Wall -pedantic! Command line options implemented Terminal-failure-retry delay added Documentation expanded
2.0b3	1996.12.27	2	2	0	2	1	0	0	Uses persistent TCP connections instead of UDP Self-niceing Solaris Make options fixed up Smarter cache/lookup Thanks to Bob Ramstad for help and ideas!
2.0b2	1996.10.16	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	File locking (where available) STDOUT flushed before DBM dumped
2.0b1	1996.10.15	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	More portable Makefile Compiles on Linux, Irix, SunOS and Solaris with GNU Make. Thanks to Dr. Lai in Singapore for the Solaris info! Cache entries now expire Defaults to 1 week (see logresolve.h)
2.0b0	1996.09.23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	initial beta release
1.0	1995.04.16	first version - no DBM, simple stats