On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 01:44:48PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > On 07/21/2011 12:32 PM, Wookey wrote: > > +++ Abhishek Dasgupta [2011-07-20 20:52 +0530]: > >> On 20 July 2011 19:14, <[email protected]> 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. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
