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Title: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0.5 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: khal on May 27, 2012, 10:58:31 PM NamecoinToBind v3.0.5
From : https://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=315 Quote NamecoinToBind is a php script that generates bind zones for .bit domains from the namecoin blockchain * Improved compatibility with Domain spec V2 (alias and translate) * Full rewrite of data import * Uses new namecoin rpc commands (namecoin v3.50 required) * Reduced RAM usage (5/20 MBs, except on first run to import all domains : 100MB) * Faster to run (15/20s on first run, 2s else) * Config file now supports several ip for the authoritative zone (useful with ipv6 for example) Readme : https://github.com/khalahan/NamecoinToBind/blob/master/README Download : https://github.com/khalahan/NamecoinToBind/zipball/v3.0.5 Title: Re: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: sd on May 28, 2012, 07:34:32 PM NamecoinToBind v3.0 From : https://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=315 Quote NamecoinToBind is a php script that generates bind zones for .bit domains from the namecoin blockchain * Improved compatibility with Domain spec V2 (alias and translate) * Full rewrite of data import * Uses new namecoin rpc commands (namecoin v3.50 required) * Reduced RAM usage (5/20 MBs, except on first run to import all domains : 100MB) * Faster to run (15/20s on first run, 2s else) * Config file now supports several ip for the authoritative zone (useful with ipv6 for example) Readme : https://github.com/khalahan/NamecoinToBind/blob/master/README Download : https://github.com/khalahan/NamecoinToBind/zipball/v3.0.1 Great work! The main branch isn't at 3.50. I assume this needs the khal ( your? ) branch at: https://github.com/khalahan/namecoin.git Is that branch considered stable? Has anyone tried getting google or opendns to support .bit ? It would rock if getting access to .bit domains was as simple as using google's or opendns's nameservers. Title: Re: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: NothinG on May 28, 2012, 07:39:08 PM Has anyone tried getting google or opendns to support .bit ? It would rock if getting access to .bit domains was as simple as using google's or opendns's nameservers. I would think there would need to be more registrars and registered domains involved before that get into it.[Sorta-off-topic]: I'm wanting to setup my own DNS server for this, how would I go about doing it? I've read the tutorials on the site, but doesn't get much detail on ports and stuff. Title: Re: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: sd on May 28, 2012, 07:42:17 PM [Sorta-off-topic]: I'm wanting to setup my own DNS server for this, how would I go about doing it? I've read the tutorials on the site, but doesn't get much detail on ports and stuff. That's very much on-topic. You run the php script at the top of this thread and it should generate a zone file you can feed to bind. If you don't know how to configure bind the o'reilly book DNS and Bind comes highly recommended. Title: Re: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: NothinG on May 28, 2012, 07:44:01 PM [Sorta-off-topic]: I'm wanting to setup my own DNS server for this, how would I go about doing it? I've read the tutorials on the site, but doesn't get much detail on ports and stuff. That's very much on-topic. You run the php script at the top of this thread and it should generate a zone file you can feed to bind. If you don't know how to configure bind the o'reilly book DNS and Bind comes highly recommended. I also heard setting up a DNS server uses a bit of bandwidth which is why I'm thinking about renting a tiny VPS somewhere else just for testing. Title: Re: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: sd on May 28, 2012, 07:48:01 PM [Sorta-off-topic]: I'm wanting to setup my own DNS server for this, how would I go about doing it? I've read the tutorials on the site, but doesn't get much detail on ports and stuff. That's very much on-topic. You run the php script at the top of this thread and it should generate a zone file you can feed to bind. If you don't know how to configure bind the o'reilly book DNS and Bind comes highly recommended. I also heard setting up a DNS server uses a bit of bandwidth which is why I'm thinking about renting a tiny VPS somewhere else just for testing. DNS only uses port 53 but it uses both UDP and TCP. DNS uses a tiny amount of bandwidth. You won't even notice it unless you are on dial up. Title: Re: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: sd on May 28, 2012, 08:15:18 PM NamecoinToBind v3.0 I can't get this to work. It pulls 2 or 3 domains then quits without giving any errors even though debug is on. It doesn't write any zone files. It looks about as difficult to fix as it would be to rewrite so I'm giving up. Shame really. This looked like such a useful thing. Title: Re: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: enmaku on May 28, 2012, 08:21:37 PM I'd love to set this up at a small business I work with but they're a Microsoft shop and I'll be honest and say I get DNS as a concept but I know little about the implementation - how hard would it be to make this work with a MS DNS server?
Title: Re: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: sd on May 28, 2012, 08:47:03 PM I'd love to set this up at a small business I work with but they're a Microsoft shop and I'll be honest and say I get DNS as a concept but I know little about the implementation - how hard would it be to make this work with a MS DNS server? Assuming you can get the php to work it should just be a matter of reformatting the output and importing it, you might need to turn it into some LDIF like format. Nobody sane uses a MS DNS server, certainly not to serve data to the Internet. It might be better to set this up on a Linux machine outside their network and query that. Title: Re: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: khal on May 28, 2012, 10:32:43 PM Great work! The main branch isn't at 3.50. I assume this needs the khal ( your? ) branch at: https://github.com/khalahan/namecoin.git Is that branch considered stable? Has anyone tried getting google or opendns to support .bit ? It would rock if getting access to .bit domains was as simple as using google's or opendns's nameservers. The main branch is uptodate : https://github.com/namecoin/namecoin Last signed tag : nc0.3.50.01 My master repo is also stable. We are currently in the process of a "peering agreement" with OpenNIC (not OpenDNS :p), so, it is a first step in the direction a being supported by opendns and google :p. NamecoinToBind v3.0 I can't get this to work. It pulls 2 or 3 domains then quits without giving any errors even though debug is on. It doesn't write any zone files. It looks about as difficult to fix as it would be to rewrite so I'm giving up. Shame really. This looked like such a useful thing. Title: Re: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: enmaku on May 29, 2012, 12:12:54 AM I'd love to set this up at a small business I work with but they're a Microsoft shop and I'll be honest and say I get DNS as a concept but I know little about the implementation - how hard would it be to make this work with a MS DNS server? Assuming you can get the php to work it should just be a matter of reformatting the output and importing it, you might need to turn it into some LDIF like format. Nobody sane uses a MS DNS server, certainly not to serve data to the Internet. It might be better to set this up on a Linux machine outside their network and query that. Fair enough, there are probably more/better general use instructions for bind anyway ;D Title: Re: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: khal on May 29, 2012, 09:30:48 AM NamecoinToBind v3.0 I can't get this to work. It pulls 2 or 3 domains then quits without giving any errors even though debug is on. It doesn't write any zone files. It looks about as difficult to fix as it would be to rewrite so I'm giving up. Shame really. This looked like such a useful thing. I made a mistake in one config file (/etc/bind/named.conf.bit ), sorry. Here is what it should look like : Code: // zones generated by users I've also updated the code to show php errors in debug mode and set max memory to 200MB. Title: Re: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: sd on May 29, 2012, 08:06:10 PM I made a mistake in one config file (/etc/bind/named.conf.bit ), sorry. Here is what it should look like : Code: // zones generated by users I've also updated the code to show php errors in debug mode and set max memory to 200MB. After some more poking I got this to generate a zone file but it's only 547 lines long and none of my domains are listed. This appears to be skipping a huge number of domains. Maybe php isn't the right language to write this in. I really don't get why namecoin uses 'ip' for 'A' records, 'ip6' for 'AAAA' records, 'alias' for 'CNAME' records. Why not just name these things the same way DNS does? After all this is aimed at DNS administrators isn't it? Title: Re: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: khal on May 30, 2012, 09:16:44 AM After some more poking I got this to generate a zone file but it's only 547 lines long and none of my domains are listed. This appears to be skipping a huge number of domains. Maybe php isn't the right language to write this in. I guess after all tests you've done that it has cached an incomplete list of names and tou got only new names.Here is what i have (after cleaning the cache and launching once) : Code: ll cache/ Code: ll /etc/bind/dotbit On which OS are you installing it ? I really don't get why namecoin uses 'ip' for 'A' records, 'ip6' for 'AAAA' records, 'alias' for 'CNAME' records. Why not just name these things the same way DNS does? After all this is aimed at DNS administrators isn't it? Maybe to be coherent with other keywords like tor, i2p, fingerprint and all other that don't have a DNS equivalent.Title: Re: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: paraipan on May 30, 2012, 11:02:18 AM great work, watching...
Title: Re: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: khal on May 29, 2013, 02:48:43 PM A new update has been released : v3.0.4.
Some bugs fixed :p Source : https://github.com/khalahan/NamecoinToBind/archive/v3.0.4.zip Title: Re: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0.4 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: jackjack on May 29, 2013, 02:59:06 PM Wow, a thread in the altcoin subforum which is not about a 5 days-old coin.
I nearly cried. Anyway, nice work. I'm happy to see Namecoin is still developped. I won't be able to test it soon though. Title: Re: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0.4 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: ondratra on May 29, 2013, 04:06:21 PM are there any existing .bit domains you would recommend to visit?
Title: Re: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0.4 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: virtualmaster on May 30, 2013, 08:53:20 PM are there any existing .bit domains you would recommend to visit? http://dot-bit.org/Websites Title: Re: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: khal on June 16, 2013, 05:54:12 PM A new update has been released : v3.0.5. - better support of aliases (support redirect to an existing domain : https://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4335#p4335) - update bind config file to support malformed names (avoid one step during the install) Source : https://github.com/khalahan/NamecoinToBind/archive/v3.0.5.zip Title: Re: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0.5 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: georgem on November 25, 2013, 02:35:27 AM Does this still work with the newest namecoind version 3.72 ?
Title: Re: [ANN] NamecoinToBind v3.0.5 : run a .bit DNS server ! Post by: phelix on November 26, 2013, 09:56:06 PM Does this still work with the newest namecoind version 3.72 ? It should as commands did not change. |