[Freedombox-discuss] http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0153204/Security-Consultants-Wa rn-About-PROTECT-IP-Act

[bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 01:44:48PM -0400, ian at churchkey.org wrote:
> On 07/21/2011 12:32 PM, Wookey wrote:
> > +++ Abhishek Dasgupta [2011-07-20 20:52 +0530]:
> >> On 20 July 2011 19:14,  <bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org> wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 08:46:38AM -0400, James Vasile wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>>> Dynamic DNS run by a freedom loving group sounds great. I'd use it.  
> >>
> >> Why not use dyndns/freeDNS for the time being? gnudip2.sourceforge.net
> >> is another option, though it does not seem to be maintained anymore.
> > 
> > Very sensible, but I was very surprised recently to find that there is
> > (apparently) no package to provide simple DynDNS server-side functionality. 
> 
> . . .
> > 
> > Have I in fact just missed some standard way of doing this, or is
> > there in fact a hole that needs filling here? UNlike many of our other
> > problems this is not intrinsically difficult. A few naff shell scripts
> > make a perfectly functional solution. There are probbaly many ways to
> > make it more generally useful and flexible. 
> 
> I think you've hit the nail on the head actually, though Bjarni
> Einarsson could certainly shed some better light on the current state of
> affairs.

What server-side feature is necessary if freedombox owners do own their
subdomain zone on the DNS server installed on their box? Appart from a way
to register their subdomain, I don't see. The top-domain DNS server only
has a few entries per subdomain to maintain: the DNS server which own the
delegation for the zone, and its glue record and that's all. Ah, and
authentication for sure.

I'm currently drafting a way to handle this registration though some
monkeysphere alike gnupg signature :
https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/2284.

Even without it, it's really not that much to setup. Even gnudip2.sf.net
might be able to do that.

bert.