[Twisted-Python] State of Names / DNS server

[Glyph]

> On Oct 16, 2018, at 11:07 AM, Wim Lewis <wiml at hhhh.org> wrote:
> 
> Evilham writes:
>> 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
> 
> That one's mine. I've finally figured out the Twisted CI infrastructure well enough to get things marked green (and I have commit access now as well, thanks Glyph!), so that PR is really only waiting for me to read & consider some of the review feedback on public attribute names.
> 
> Trac 9373 was my attempt to upstream work I did last year on secure dynamic dns updates (NSUPDATE + transaction signatures). 9373 has narrowed in scope to just the two RR types in PR 954, since there are older tickets for the other records. I plan to combine my work with some of the existing abandoned PRs for KEY, DNSKEY, and SIG and try to sheperd those through the process but that's on the back burner for now.
> 
> Russ Nelson is/was also doing some work with Names and these RR types. I think he's interested in the server side of secure dyn-dns, but I'm not sure. (I was only working on a client implementation.) Both he and I have github forks with some of our work in branches, if you'd like to see the direction we've been going.

Thanks very much for sending out this summary; sounds like we may have an actual twisted.names team soon!

> As for DNSSEC, I've seen those arguments against it and I find them pretty unconvincing, but I suppose that's a topic for a different thread.

You don't need to convince me!  Someone should work on DNSSEC for twisted.names, and that person should probably think DNSSEC is a good idea, so I don't want to convince you :-).

-g
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