replace udns

[harry]

Just for the record:

Udns was abandoned a long time ago and is not maintained anymore. For this reason it is also not part of Debian and blocks jabberd2 in Debian from going stable. See e.g. [0] for more information.

It should be replaced by another resolver. Some work has already be done here: [1]. See also the discussion on the mailing list [2].

[0]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=493599
[1]: http://code.google.com/p/cwave/source/detail?r=27
[2]: http://<email address hidden>/msg01340.html

[Tomasz Sterna (smoku)]

Unfortunately unbound needs to be patched to be usable with jabberd2, so this is a no-go.

[Norman Rasmussen (normanr)]

what about adns?

[Peter Folk (pfolk-launchpad)]

or ldns?

[Tomasz Sterna (smoku)]

From my point of view there is nothing wrong with udns.

And current implementation has big advantages of:
- already exists and does not need writing
- is battle-tested and works fine in real life deployments

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=493599#10 explains throughly why Debian decision of removing udns is bogus.

But as always - if someone is willing to submit a working patch with another stub resolver implementation, I'm very happy to accept it.
BTW: This is exactly the way udns was introduced to jabberd2. :-)

[Michael Tokarev (mjt+launchpad-tls)]

It's an interesting claim - "udns is abandomed and is not maintained anymore". I as its author has a question: why do you think it is abandomed?

I noticed this bugreport just now, after, um, 3 years, just because someone pointed me to it now. Maybe it's best to ask author first, before making such claims? :)

Well. I haven't done much with udns, that's true - ie, no rewrites is planned, no bells and whistles. I fixed two small bugs found there, and included a few features contributed by others. I haven't implemented, say, DNSSEC support. But I'm not sure it is sufficient reason to say the software is abandomed...

But oh well...

[harry (harry-unheit)]

That's great to hear.

I think I inferred that from your comment in the Debian bug #493599, where you wrote "I had plans for udns, but now I don't think I'll ever finish it.". But I'm glad to hear, that I was wrong. And I'm sorry for making wrong claims without talking to you first.