Re: Speaking of DNS server software...

[Etienne-Victor Depasquale via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

> Python is, well, Python. It makes as much sense to me to write a DNS
> server in Perl or Javascript, which is to say: not much.

I don't follow. What's the objection?

On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM William Herrin via NANOG <
nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM Mike Simpson via NANOG
> <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
> > It’s authoritative only and won’t do recursion but NSD on OpenBSD should
> be much more readable.
>
> Thank you everyone for the suggestions. I'll take a closer look at NSD.
>
> PowerDNS is interesting but I actually need the inverse of the
> "remote" backend: I plan to do funky things with packets and then pass
> the query to the DNS server software for resolution. The remote
> backend lets PowerDNS do the opposite: manage all the packets and then
> use a unix domain socket to send a query to custom software for
> resolution.
>
> CoreDNS is also interesting but it's been a few years since I've
> worked with Golang and I didn't like using it for low-level packet
> manipulation. When the libraries produced incorrect packets, I found
> it abnormally challenging to debug and figure out why. The APIs were
> too abstracted from the bytewise structure of the packets.
>
> Python is, well, Python. It makes as much sense to me to write a DNS
> server in Perl or Javascript, which is to say: not much.
>
> Anyway, thanks again for the pointers.
>
> Warm Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
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