/eventdns

An EventMachine based DNS server

Primary LanguageRubyMIT LicenseMIT

EventDns - An EventMachine based DNS server ↑

My goal of this project (to start) is nothing more than to learn how to write a DNS server using ruby.

Currently, I plan on taking full advantage of the ruby language in combination with EventMachine’s sweetness to eventually have a fully RFC 1035 compliant DNS server.

HTTP RR backend ↑

  • enabled by default, test using: ‘dig @127.0.0.1 -p 1053 pi.viadns.org’ and ‘dig @127.0.0.1 -p 1053 gmail.viadns.org’

Goals ↑

Dynamic configuration ↑

  • database

  • web service(s)

  • monitored flat-file(s)

Caching ↑

  • in-memory

  • memcached

API ↑

  • REST? (json/xml)

  • TCP? (json/xml)

Dreams ↑

  • everything written in C

Requirements ↑

  • logging

  • eventmachine

  • dnsruby

  • a sweet bike