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[Bundy-hackers] Fwd: Bundy idea

David Carlier dcarlier at afilias.info
Fri Sep 12 07:50:07 CEST 2014


Hi and thanks for your inputs.

Actually the geolocalization support is set per --with-geoloc-<name of the
API>=yes/no/path of headers...
but if a module is wished, I could change it indeed.

Kind regards.

On 12 September 2014 06:41, Carsten Strotmann <carsten at strotmann.de> wrote:

> Hello David,
>
> David Carlier wrote:
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: *David Carlier* <dcarlier at afilias.info <mailto:
> dcarlier at afilias.info>>
> > Date: 10 September 2014 19:35
> > Subject: Bundy idea
> > To: dhcp-hackers at lists.isc.org <mailto:dhcp-hackers at lists.isc.org>
> >
> >
> > HI all,
> > Quite a long time I did not come back on Kea/Bundy (got caught recently
> > with HardenedBSD...) but last year I brought PostgreSQL support idea for
> > Kea, this year I had another one in mind ... for Bundy !
> >
> > I work a lot (and made one myself) with Geolocalisation APIS and was
> > wondering if in acl level it is worthy to bring this new logic (I know
> > it existed some patches for Bind9 with GeoIP support) ?
>
> A geolocation function is interesting. I know at least two customers
> that in the past had interest in an geolocation function in Bundy (when
> it still was BIND 10).
>
> BIND 9 now has official geolocation support in the 9.10 release.
>
> > I made already
> > few work about it but before going further I wanted your opinion. But
> > instead of one unique instance I thought more to bring a list of (one
> > list to handle  ipv4 and another list for ipv6 because no API can work
> > in both modes ...).
> >
>
> I've never worked with DNS geolocation myself, so I cannot really judge
> how such an API should look like.
>
> I would prefer if the geolocation function in Bundy would be implemented
> as an optional module (plugin). One of the main design features on Bundy
> is modularization.
>
> There is currently no documentation on how to write a Bundy module, but
> if you are willing to work on the geolocation part, we could work
> together and I will write the documentation on the geolocation as well
> as a documentation on how to write a Bundy extension module.
>
> Best regards
>
> Carsten Strotmann
>
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