On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Christian Grothoff <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/16/2012 07:07 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I am rather a newbie here, and not exactly any kind of developer, >> still I am trying to look into the gnunet and these new dns zones and >> the fcfs subzone. >> >> I have self-compiled 0.9.3 and tried to register some zone (do you >> only type the subzone name, or a complete one on the fcfs regsite?), >> but I think the only time it succeeded was, when I actually used not >> the gnunet-rsa -P command but the gnunet-rsa -S command to get the >> short/hashed pubkey of my installation. > > Right, you must use the short hash (as DNS limits individual name > segments to 63 characters, GNS uses the short hash). Where did you read > that you should use the long version? > >> Is that a bug in documentation at: >> https://gnunet.org/gns-fcfs-authority-started >> >> also on: >> https://gnunet.org/fcfs/ >> please give examples next to the textbox fields, that would make it >> easier for the user. > > That's a reasonable suggestion, I'll put it on my looong list ;-). > >> so is >> What is your desired domain name? >> myzonename.fcfs.gnunet. >> >> or rather only >> myzonename > > Just 'myzonename', as 'fcfs.gnunet' is always going to be used. > >> and the public key, is it really supposed to be generated via >> gnunet-rsa -P ~/.gnunet/gns/zonekey.zkey >> >> rather than >> gnunet-rsa -s ~/.gnunet/gns/zonekey.zkey? > > Either command will generate the same kind of key in the file, just the > hash function used to generate the textual output will be different. > >> The script/registrationwebsite constantly gave me errors until I >> actually switched over and used the -s (256bit hashed private key >> according to manual) parameter. >> >> Where would my registered subzone actually show up on my local system? >> gnunet-setup nor any of the gtk tools showed me anything else than >> only a plain "fcfs" entry after that import .sh script, and not even a >> nested fcfs.gnunet. entry or anything. > > If you install and configure GNS correctly, then your name will show up > when you lookup 'yourname.fcfs.gnunet' using DNS (assuming you've put > some "A" or "AAAA" records under the name "+" in your zone using, say, > 'gnunet-setup'. I don't know why 'fcfs.gnunet' doesn't show up in your > version; however, we have fixed many, many bugs since 0.9.3 including a > few with respect to GNS and the GUI, so you might want to use SVN HEAD > or the (soon to be released) 0.9.4 to see if that helps (sorry, but you > are using bleeding-edge features). > >> I used to do a bit of dns-admin in the past and ran some local >> (internal) dns zones of my own on LAN/WAN networks, but I have yet to >> understand were we are headed once we register our own subzones to >> that fcfs.gnunet. zone. > > FCFS allows you to create a 'PKEY' record in the fcfs zone under an > (available) name of your choice. All requests to that subdomain will > then be delegated to your zone. If that is not a sufficient answer, I > suspect the issue is that GNS itself isn't fully clear to you, which is > understandable as we're still in the process of documenting it. If you > have any specific questions, please send them to us and we'll try to > improve the documentation. > >> Also, after I did a registration with my private key (-s one) I >> couldnt register any further zones with that key any more, the >> registration website refused to use this same private key for >> additional entries. Is this on purpose? How do we practically register >> multiple zones and have multiple private/public keys in use. > > This particular FCFS implementation limits registration to one name per > key to encourage users to be reasonable --- otherwise we might have some > "funny guy" registering all names with up to 8 characters just for fun. > However, other FCFS zones can have different policies and in your own > zone you can obviously do whatever you like to do. > > I hope this helps! > > > Happy hacking! > > Christian > > _______________________________________________ > GNUnet-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnunet-developers
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