On 21 Dec 2023, at 08:38, Mario Rugiero <mrugiero_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 21 Dec 2023, at 08:06, Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware_at_skarnet.org> wrote:
>> * shibari-0.0.1.0
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>>
>> A brand new project, because I clearly don't have enough on my plate.
>> shibari is a suite of DNS tools, a successor to s6-dns. Eventually it
>> will fully replace s6-dns, but for now it simply depends on it. This
>> first version of shibari comes with two DNS server programs (one for UDP
>> and one for TCP), that are more or less drop-in replacements for djb's
>> tinydns and axfrdns. (I wrote them because it was a better long-term
>> solution than adding a patch to fix a bug in axfrdns.)
>
> Out of curiosity, is there any reason this is coupled with its own server rather
> than forked from s6-tcpserver and the like? I always found it odd that tinydns
> worked differently from most other DJB tools.
> Is it some assumption about the load it'll be handling?
Nevermind, I just noticed that seems to be the case only for UDP, but TCP does
work by forking from a separate server in shibari.
The difference in UDP is that not having a connection makes it harder to model
with the stdin/stdout method of UCSPI, right?
Received on Thu Dec 21 2023 - 12:44:50 CET