[Twisted-Python] State of Names / DNS server

Evilham contact at evilham.com
Fri Oct 12 13:18:01 MDT 2018


Dear Twisted people,

I've been taking a good look at twisted.names as a sever after checking
twisted-infra/braid/services/names and how the zones are saved.

Basically, I wonder what the state-of-afairs of running DNS with twisted is.

By checking the code I see a couple things like:
* That zone transfers are enabled by default and open to any host and
only subclassing would help override that (it is the case on
twistedmatrix.com btw).
* Comments saying how some things are not RFC-compliant, but not how.
* That DNSSEC is not implemented

Besides the 1st point which could be a ticket (should I open it?), the
other points appear to be somewhat documented in the open tickets:
https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&component=names&group=priority&max=200&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&order=priority

But I wonder if there is something like a roadmap that I haven't seen or
a very specific way to start helping on this front.

Basically, I'd hate to start working on sth and it overlapping with
someone else's work ;).


I checked a couple tickets, and see that there is definitely a need for
some cleanup, e.g. this one appears to be ready for closing
https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/5048
as it is marked as duplicate of a closed ticket.

Also, I recall this PR from early summer, which appears to have been
OK'd but is blocked by some failure in appveyor + buildbot:
https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/954

Thank you for any pointers, and thank you for Twisted!
-- 
Evilham

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