Jeffrey Ollie <j...@ocjtech.us> wrote:
> >> Why was twisted.names insufficient? What kind of stuff does >dnspython do >> that twisted.names doesn't? It would be useful to list these >enhancements >> in your README so that users can judge if they need it. In other >words: >> what was the itch that lead to its creation? > >The main reason was to be able to do secure dynamic DNS updates. >AFAICS there isn't support in twisted.names for that. I suppose I >should have included an example, but to do secure updates you have to >cryptographically sign the DNS packets, plus you need to control the >DNS server etc. The 3rd example at >http://www.dnspython.org/examples.html is a non-working example >(non-working because of the fake encryption key). > >Sometime in the near future I'll need some DNSSEC support, but that >project is still a little half-baked so things may change. > FYI I wrote patches for twisted.names that implement both tsig/tkey I.e. secure dynamic update and dnssec. They're languishing in trac because uqds saps my will to live :o( -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse brevity and typos. _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
