On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:11 PM, David F. Skoll <d...@roaringpenguin.com> wrote:
> The DNS software that serves the zone newdomain.example.net runs > the following pseudo-code when "example.org" is looked up: > [..] So.... who's volunteering to do this? :) > *raises hand* I still have an experimental DNS server (written in Perl) lying around that this more-or-less what is described here. The overall system would need a bit more thought, though. * Distributed over n nodes. Given that data can have pretty long TTL, it does not need a lot of nodes, but still the distributed nature brings some challenges. * Definition of the granularity of data - should a "first seen" date be returned, or an age (in days?) * Querying whois servers is not practical at that scale. * How would the queries be sent to the nodes? Domain-based BL-type queries? * Would the SA project take on some operational responsibilities? * The dnswl.org project can sponsor resources and take on some operational aspects, but we would welcome some support. -- Matthias
