[Twisted-Python] EDNS(0) and DNSSEC support in Twisted Names

[Glyph]

On Nov 25, 2013, at 8:56 AM, Richard Wall <m-lists at the-moon.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm happy to announce that I've won some funding from The NLnet
> Foundation DNS Security Fund (http://www.nlnet.nl/dnssec/), to add
> EDNS(0) and DNSSEC (and possibly DANE) support to Twisted.
> 
> The current project plan can be found here:
> * https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/EDNS0
> 
> If there are any DNS enthusiasts / experts on this list, I'd
> appreciate your feedback -- on the plan and on the implementation (as
> it evolves). Please reply to this email with your thoughts.
> 
> Tom Prince has kindly agreed to do some "express" code and design
> reviews for me. That'll be a great help given the current length of
> the review queue.
> * https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/report/25
> 
> But the more eyes on the code the better, so please consider helping
> out with code reviews if you can. (I'm happy to trade reviews if
> you've got your own branch / patch waiting to be reviewed.)
> 
> I've been given a head start in this project by the patches
> contributed by Bob Novas and Phil Mayers, so thank you both. I hope
> you'll be able monitor what I'm doing and steer me in the right
> direction.
> 
> Thanks also to Itamar who encouraged me to apply for the funding and
> to Tom Prince and everyone who helped me draft the proposal.
> 
> I'll be working on this at the Twisted Sprint in Bristol, UK on
> December 7th; where I'll be delighted to discuss the project and
> demonstrate what I've been up to. Hope to see you there!
> 
> -Richard Wall (rwall in #twisted and #twisted-dev)

Congratulations, Richard.  Thanks a ton for helping to improve twisted.names.  Lack of DNSSEC has been a sore point with a few people I've talked to about adopting twisted.names in favor of ... shall we say, "legacy" DNS solutions ;-).

-glyph