I maybe have made this suggestion in the past, but why don't we teach the seeder (or maybe even plain bitcoind) how to write a zone file and then use matured DNS servers to serve this zone?
I admit I never ran my own DNS so I'm not sure if that can work -- but to me it sounds like the easiest approach plus everyone can just use stock server software. On 05/30/2014 05:24 PM, Pieter Wuille wrote: > I don't think it would be too hard to add support for a option to the > seeder "for non-matching requests, forward to other DNS server at > IP:PORT", so you could cascade them. > > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Robert McKay <rob...@mckay.com> wrote: >> No, I don't think so. The problem is the 'aa' flag is missing (see the >> 'flags' section in dig). Perhaps if you could suppress the authority >> records the recursor would give up and just accept the non-authorative >> answer, but that isn't a good solution even if it might work for some >> resolvers. >> >> Rob >> >> On Fri, 30 May 2014 15:13:36 +0100, Alex Kotenko wrote: >>> Hmm, you might be right, as queries >>> dig @node.alexykot.me [8] testnet-seed.alexykot.me [9] >>> >>> and >>> dig @node.alexykot.me [10] -p 18353 testnet-seed.alexykot.me >>> [11] >>> >>> are giving different authority sections. >>> >>> Hmm, but if I setup custom SOA record for it - it should work, >>> right? >>> What SOA name should it be actually, assuming that NS record for >>> testnet-seed.alexykot.me [12] is pointing at alexykot.me [13]? >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Alex Kotenko >>> >>> 2014-05-30 14:41 GMT+01:00 Robert McKay : >>> >>>> Hi Alex, >>>> >>>> I think the problem is with my suggestion to use bind forwarding.. >>>> basically bind is stripping off the authorative answer bit in the >>>> reply.. this causes the recursor to go into a loop chasing the >>>> authority server which again returns a non-authoritve answer with >>>> itself as the authority again. Im not sure if this can be fixed >>>> without hacking the bind src, so maybe it wasnt such a great >>>> suggestion in the first place. Basically I think if bind was >>>> returning authorative answers it would work, but I cant see any way >>>> to make that happen in the bind configuration. >>>> >>>> Rob >>>> >>>> On Fri, 30 May 2014 14:19:05 +0100, Alex Kotenko wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Peter >>>>> >>>>> Ive setup DNS seeds myself a week ago, at >>>>> testnet-seed.alexykot.me [1] [6] >>>>> and bitcoin-seed.alexykot.me [2] [7], but there is a problem with >>>>> DNS >>>>> settings that we with Andreas couldnt sort out quickly. >>>>> >>>>> The problem itself is that I can reach my nameserver and get >>>>> dnsseed >>>>> response if I query it directly with >>>>> dig @node.alexykot.me [3] [8] testnet-seed.alexykot.me [4] [9] >>>>> >>>>> dig @node.alexykot.me [5] [10] bitcoin-seed.alexykot.me [6] >>>>> [11] >>>>> >>>>> But when I try nslookup testnet-seed.alexykot.me [7] [12] - >>>>> it >>>>> fails. >>>>> I guess the problem is in my DNS settings but I cant figure out >>>>> what >>>>> is it. >>>>> >>>>> S o could you share >>>>> how you configured DNS >>>>> for your seed >>>>> to help me debug >>>>> mine >>>>> ? >>>>> >>>>> Best regards, >>>>> >>>>> Alex Kotenko >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>> Links: >>> ------ >>> [1] http://testnet-seed.alexykot.me >>> [2] http://bitcoin-seed.alexykot.me >>> [3] http://node.alexykot.me >>> [4] http://testnet-seed.alexykot.me >>> [5] http://node.alexykot.me >>> [6] http://bitcoin-seed.alexykot.me >>> [7] http://testnet-seed.alexykot.me >>> [8] http://node.alexykot.me/ >>> [9] http://testnet-seed.alexykot.me/ >>> [10] http://node.alexykot.me/ >>> [11] http://testnet-seed.alexykot.me/ >>> [12] http://testnet-seed.alexykot.me >>> [13] http://alexykot.me >>> [14] mailto:rob...@mckay.com >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Time is money. Stop wasting it! Get your web API in 5 minutes. >> www.restlet.com/download >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/restlet >> _______________________________________________ >> Bitcoin-development mailing list >> Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Time is money. Stop wasting it! Get your web API in 5 minutes. > www.restlet.com/download > http://p.sf.net/sfu/restlet > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Time is money. Stop wasting it! Get your web API in 5 minutes. www.restlet.com/download http://p.sf.net/sfu/restlet _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
