[Freedombox-discuss] distributed DNS

[bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org]

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:35:33AM +0000, Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I think I am missing something here - what problem do you want to solve with
> this?  Are you talking about teaching Freedomboxes to be dynamic DNS
> servers, or do you want to create an alternative to the existing dynamic DNS
> providers out there?  (And if so, why?)

Yeah, the idea is to build a dynamic DNS service, distributed if possible.
I see no point in building a freedombox if its DNS system is based on
"cloudy" (or mainstream if you prefer) services like dyndns.

> The hard part about dynamic DNS is not serving up the records - as you have
> pointed out, DNS servers with pluggable back-ends make this trivially easy
> to implement. It's all the management and infrastructure and policy you need
> to make it secure and reliable - and in the end, someone has to pay the
> bills for bandwidth and domain name registration. (Not terribly expensive,
> but not free either.)

Well, pay the bill for a DNS domain at least, not that expensive though.
Some are already rented by people around here.
Bandwidth shouldn't be a problem if the system is decentralized. I guess
the best would be for such a system to be able to support multiple domain
name, so that if some fb user wants to own and use one, he/she could
manage it.

> I've implemented a dynamic DNS service, on top of powerdns and redis.  It's
> part of the infrastructure behind pagekite.net.  I wouldn't mind sharing
> that code, I am sure some peer review would do it good. :-)

Nice, sure I'd like to see/test that. I'm not a lot in redis and all, but
might be usefull in the futur.

bert.

> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:08 AM, <bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I did again some more digging on this topic, and found that some people
> > (including people from the "cloud community") already had thought of using
> > couchDB as a DNS server backend.
> >
> > Seems like it's already possible using Powerdns (well, using the "pipe"
> > backend) or Bind using the couch-sdb driver
> > (http://github.com/jpmens/couch-sdb).
> >
> > Some of these links contains neat ideas that might be worth thinking, and
> > would be a good start to search how to implement dynamic DNS on top of
> > that.
> >
> > http://blog.fupps.com/2010/04/30/dns-backed-by-couchdb/
> > http://blog.fupps.com/2010/05/05/powerdns-and-a-couchdb-backend/
> >
> > http://blog.fupps.com/2010/10/06/serving-dns-replies-from-a-couchdb-database-with-the-bind-name-server/
> > http://labs.mudynamics.com/2010/04/29/couchdb-dns-and-scaling-the-cloud/
> >
> > I'll dump them on the wiki this time :)
> >
> > bert.
> >
> >
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> 
> 
> 
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> Bjarni R. Einarsson
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