I was thinking about adding a few RR types to nsd and I was wondering:
1) Is there a HOWTO-HACK somewhere? Apparently, I need to modify
dns.h, dns.c (to describe the RR type) and of course zparser.y (to
describe the presentation format) and that's all? It seems too simple
2) Should I work on NSD 3 (then possibly having to do it again in 4),
NSD 4 (not yet ready) or both?
Hi Stephane,
I was thinking about adding a few RR types to nsd and I was
wondering:1) Is there a HOWTO-HACK somewhere? Apparently, I need to modify
dns.h, dns.c (to describe the RR type) and of course zparser.y (to
describe the presentation format) and that's all? It seems too
simple
No, there is no howto for new RRtypes. Perhaps because it is too
simple (if you don't do special processing RRtypes).
Looking at the TLSA commit: edited dns.{c,h}, zparser.y and
documentation. So yeah, that's all:)
2) Should I work on NSD 3 (then possibly having to do it again in
4), NSD 4 (not yet ready) or both?
The code should be the same for 3 and 4.
Best regards,
Matthijs
Hi Stephane,
1) Is there a HOWTO-HACK somewhere? Apparently, I need to modify
dns.h, dns.c (to describe the RR type) and of course zparser.y (to
describe the presentation format) and that's all? It seems too simple
A little late perhaps and you don't seem to need it but I'll post it
anyway. When I started working at NLnet Labs a couple of
years ago and first touching NSD code I wrote some text about
HOWTO-HACK-NEW-RRTYPE which I found useful at the time.
Regards,
Yuri Schaeffer
Adding a new RR type
That was interesting, thank you.
The RANDINT type gives the client a random 32 bit integer V.
Hmm. Maybe RANDIP would be nice to have... 
[sorry: couldn't resist]
-JP