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Fred Emmott commented on ZOOKEEPER-703:
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Quick-and-dirty code:

http://gitorious.org/zkdns/zkdns

No promises about reliability etc. We only use this to provide a convenience 
hostname for accessing the hbase master web interface (not depended on by any 
live services).

Can be used for any entry containing an ipv4 address, optionally followed by a 
port. Hostname format is "/hbase/master" -> "master.hbase.zk". We use CNAMEs to 
hook this into our existing hierarchy.

> GSoC 2010: ZooKeeper DNS Server
> -------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ZOOKEEPER-703
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-703
>             Project: Zookeeper
>          Issue Type: Wish
>            Reporter: Henry Robinson
>
> ZooKeeper DNS Server
> Possible Mentor
> Henry Robinson (henry at apache dot org)
> Requirements
> Java or Python or C
> Description
> Although ZooKeeper is primarily used for co-ordination of distributed 
> processes, its consistency semantics means that it's a good candidate for 
> serving small (key,value) records as well. The Domain Name Service has 
> similar requirements, raising the interesting question of whether ZooKeeper 
> would be a capable DNS server for your local network. One intriguing 
> possibility is having versioned DNS records, such that known-good 
> configurations can be stored and rolled back to in the case of an issue. If 
> this versioning primitive proves to be useful, it's easy to imagine other 
> types of configuration that could be stored.
> This project would involve designing and building an RFC-1035 compliant DNS 
> server and performing a detailed performance study against an already 
> existant simple DNS server like tinydns.

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