capz / dns

A fork of dns.c modified to build with the Nintendo Gamecube as a target platform

Notes

This fork is a hacked-up version of the original, modified to work on a Nintendo Gamecube (at least, that's the aim, since libogc doesn't have DNS features)

• currently not building

Removed:

• IPV6 support
• platform support for anything other than Nintendo Gamecube
• Use of standard sockets functionality
• Any source not relating to DNS functionality (SPF, etc.)

But feel free to rely on Github for tracking the source tree.

Description

A non-blocking DNS resolver library in a single .c file.

• No dependencies!

• Supports both stub and recursive modes.

• No event callbacks! Callbacks are usually inevitable when writing non-blocking network software, but when too many libraries introduce too many callback interfaces code quickly becomes incomprehensible beyond necessity. dns.c requires no particular callback scheme, nor enforces callbacks at all. That makes it easy to use and embed within other components.

• Works with any event loop. All resolver objects support three common methods: pollfd, events, and timeout.

• Core DNS API built around actual DNS packet; as generic as DNS itself. This makes querying and manipulating records other than A, AAAA, and PTR much easier, yet with similar simplicity as API's which make annoying assumptions.

• Type-specific interfaces for A, AAAA, CNAME, NS, SOA, PTR, MX, TXT, SRV, SSHFP, and SPF records.

• Restartable record iterators with user-specified sorting. Iterate over MX or SRV records in semantic order (i.e. preference and priority) using a single dns_rr_foreach loop. Interruptible loops supported with dns_rr_grep.

• getaddrinfo-like auxiliary interface.

• Pluggable cache interface. Application can specify a synchronous or asynchronous local cache for use by the core resolver.

• "Smart" queries which automatically dereference NS, MX, SRV, PTR, etc. to A records. Recursing, caching nameservers don't usually do this explicitly, but merely rely on the authoritative server to include glue, which won't exist for out-of-bailiwick references (very common these days). This means software must do two separate logical DNS operations; a headache when patching software which only supported A lookups. Smart queries are available with a flag to the core resolver-—in both stub and recursive modes—-and more efficiently with the built-in getaddrinfo-like auxiliary interface.

• Randomized source ports and encrypted QIDs using a 16-bit Feistel block cipher. User specifiable entropy source. Defaults to arc4random where available; knows how to use OpenSSL RAND_bytes if specified during the build (-DDNS_RANDOM=RAND_bytes).

• Statistics interface. Retrieve count of packets and bytes, sent and received; and number of queries processed.

Build

use the makefile to build a dol executable

License

Copyright (c) 2008-2015 William Ahern [e-mail]

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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