[Dibbler-devel] DNS Updates, Temporary address support

[Adrien Clerc]

Tomasz Mrugalski a écrit :

> Hello
>
> I just wanted to inform everyone that patch sent by team from the 
> Enseeiht University in France (Adrien CLERC, Bahattin DEMIRPLAK, 
> Gaëtant ELEOUET,
> Mickaël GUÉRIN, Lionel GUILMIN, Lauréline PROVOST) has been merged 
> into the top CVS branch. Thanks for your great work, guys.
>
> Note that there is no documentation available how to set up DNS 
> server. Are there any volunteers? ;)
>
> I have also merged my own new stuff: temporary addresses support. 
> Although it is not complete, it has some basic functionality (i.e. 
> address can be obtained).
>
> A word of caution: all those changes were developed under Linux, so 
> don't expect them to compile under Windows. Support for legacy closed 
> source platforms will be updated later. :)
>
> Oh, one more news: if you haven't noticed, Dibbler was accepted into 
> Debian. So it is already part of 3 Linux distros.
>
> Best regards,
>
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Hello
I just want to add some few things about that news.
First, be aware that the configuration of a DNS server will be linked to 
the server. We use the BIND9 documentation to find how we can do it 
(with BIND...), and it takes 3 lines in the config file.
In order to perform the DNS update, we integrate the poslib library, 
which is portable : the website says it works on Windows (and others). 
We didn't test it, but there is some hope to compile it on others 
platform without changing a lot of code. To my mind, the most difficult 
part should be the compilation of poslib on Windows.
By the way, if Dibbler is now in Debian, maybe we can think about a 
dependency to poslib. For now, it is linked statically to Dibbler for 
obvious reasons, and as poslib isn't yet in Debian official repository, 
we can but wait before working on it...

Cheers,
Adrien