Subj : Clearing Houz does DNS
To   : deon
From : MeaTLoTioN
Date : Thu Sep 14 2023 10:00:02

On 14 Sep 2023, deon said the following...
 
 de> If you wanted to try it, Clearinghouz now answers DNS queries (albeit
 de> with limited information).

Wow nice, sounds like fun...

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

Sure I can play. 

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

Very cool, I just tried it with my f101.n1.z1337 and it returned my cname =)

 de> At the moment, I'm not returning a DNS SRV record - perhaps I should
 de> implement that - which is really only important for those systems where
 de> BINKP/EMSI is running on non-standard ports. I probably could even
 de> provide a "telnet" SRV record, although I dont think any emulators use
 de> it?
 de> 
 de> Anyway, if you wanted to play with it, all you need to do is delegate
 de> z1337.erb.pw to clrghouz.bbs.dege.au, ie: clrghouz is the "NS" for that
 de> domain, and then you should be able to resolve the systems that clrghouz
 de> knows. EG:

I have done this now;

$ dig -t ns z1337.erb.pw @1.1.1.1 +short
clrghouz.bbs.dege.au.

Looks like it works =)

$ dig -t cname f101.n2.z1337.erb.pw

; <<>> DiG 9.18.12-0ubuntu0.22.04.2-Ubuntu <<>> -t cname f101.n2.z1337.erb.pw
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 25416
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;f101.n2.z1337.erb.pw.       IN   CNAME

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

;; Query time: 863 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.240#53(192.168.0.240) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Thu Sep 14 09:55:24 BST 2023
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 83

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 * Origin: thE qUAntUm wOrmhOlE, rAmsgAtE, uK. bbs.erb.pw (1337:1/101)

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