Subj : Clearing Houz does DNS
To   : Meatlotion
From : deon
Date : Thu Sep 14 2023 09:11:19

Howdy,

If you wanted to try it, Clearinghouz now answers DNS queries (albeit with limited information).

I'm not sure if I have set it up properly - so if you wanted to play with it, it would help.

My idea is that when querying with a fido DNS name, ie: fXXX.nXXX.zXXX.domain, it returns a CNAME to the BBS (which is the system address field in clearinghouz). User's can update this address, otherwise its populated when I import nodelists.

At the moment, I'm not returning a DNS SRV record - perhaps I should implement that - which is really only important for those systems where BINKP/EMSI is running on non-standard ports. I probably could even provide a "telnet" SRV record, although I dont think any emulators use it?

Anyway, if you wanted to play with it, all you need to do is delegate z1337.erb.pw to clrghouz.bbs.dege.au, ie: clrghouz is the "NS" for that domain, and then you should be able to resolve the systems that clrghouz knows. EG:

EG:
;; ANSWER SECTION:
f101.n2.z1337.erb.pw.   86400   IN      CNAME   alterant.bbs.dege.au.

(It'll also answer to a fake TLD "ftn" - so f101.n2.z1337.tqwnet.ftn will also work - but that would require everybody updating their local DNS to know about "FTN" - which is probably not doable...)

Anyway, be curious to know if it does work :)


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