On Sep 6, 2011, at 1:18 AM, Phil Mayers wrote: > 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(
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