Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Gröber <d...@darkboxed.org> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, d...@darkboxed.org, Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at>
Hi d-devel, I'm packaging regrettably obscure but highly useful DNS software again (before: nsdiff). Tony really knows how to build these minimal but exremely versatile tools! * Package name : nsnotifyd Version : 2.3 Upstream Contact: Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> * URL : https://dotat.at/prog/nsnotifyd/ * License : 0BSD OR MIT-0 Programming Lang: C, Shell, Perl Description : promptly run command on DNS zone changes The nsnotify daemon monitors DNS zones for changes and runs a command as soon as a change is noticed. It supports real-time notifications via DNS NOTIFY (RFC 1996) but as this needs DNS server-side configuration can also fall-back to polling using the standard zone serial number (SOA record). A number of example programs to run under nsnotifyd are included: nsnotify2git - record history of zone using AXFR zone transfer. metazone - control the configuration of many name servers using a DNS zone -- similar to the now standardized RFC 9432 catalog zones. nsnotify2stealth - forward NOTIFY from primary to stealth secondaries for faster updates. nsnotify2update - bump-in-the-wire DNSSEC signer using nsdiff.1 and nsupdate.1 (DNS UPDATE, RFC 2136). -- I'm going to maintain it myself, co-maintainers welcome as always. It's going in the Debian namespace on Salsa. The nsnotifyd program itself seems essentially done, but I would like to look into formalizing Tony's example programs since they don't have enough config knobs to put into /usr/bin right now. The implementation is based on BIND (libbind) right now. For DNS implementation diversity I'd be interested in building a port for Knot DNS (libknot) as well. If anyone is motivated to work on that let me know. Quoting Tony: > It's a weird package because I get almost no feedback, but > occasionally people tell me in person that they are happily using it. > I guess it's one of those programs that's basically done, a rarity in > software! Exactly the kind of software we should strive to have in Debian <3 --Daniel
