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Hello,
I am trying to install CustomDSN and have some questions.

1. How can I install CustomDSN in Win2K ? (Installation steps)
2. How can I get the e-speak 2.2 ?

Regards
Pradeep

Hi,

we are planning to use custom DNS. But the latest version of CustomDNS I
downloaded works only with Java 1.1.8 I want to know if there is any version
of customdns which works with latest JDK versions.

Thanks,
Saritha

I had installed CustomerDNS Server ,but how tosetup /conf/* to client.
README do not tell me how to do.
Who can show me a sample file.
Where to add user/passwrod for client?
Can I have more than one domain in one server ?
please help me.

Well, I've finally had a little time to get back to this thing.

I have successfully thrown a simple JMX MBean (management bean) on top
of the VirtualDNS server and so can now add (or replace, so effectively
I can reconfigure) and remove Zones dynamically. I don't have any
persistence set up as yet, but... If nothing else I could just serialize
the zone objects for now. I had to make a few minor changes to the
libraries. If I can get this into a working semi-useful package, I'll
put it up somewhere just in case others might find it useful.

Just thought I would mention my success with CustomDNS so far--thanks
Eric and Brian.
-- 
Joel Shellman
KnOcean Interactive Corporation
http://www.knocean.com/

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:16:32PM -0800, Joel Shellman wrote:
> I realized after I posted it that it was probably doing a reverse
> lookup.

Yes.  nslookup tries to perform all sorts of weird lookups in addition to
the one you requested.  This is why you may want to send your queries
through a regular DNS server.

> Does CustomDNS support reverse lookups? How would you set it up?
> For bind, it's usually in files like 0.0.127.in-arpa. or whatever. I
> grepped the source for "reverse" and couldn't find anything.

Reverse lookups work just like foward lookups, but they use funny domain
names. :-)  Just copy your bind configuration over to CustomDNS, and
everything should work.

Cheers,
Eric

Eric Kidd wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 01:28:36PM -0800, Joel Shellman wrote:
> > # nslookup www.emptydomain.com
> > *** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Not implemented
> > *** Default servers are not available
> >
> > Any idea why?
> 
> Yes. nslookup needs to be pointed at a regular DNS server, not an
> "authority only" server such as CustomDNS.  That error message means that
> nslookup is trying to associate a host name with 127.0.0.1, and failing.
> 
> There is a way to work around this, but I don't remember it off the top of
> my head.  It's probably easiest to have CustomDNS serve a real zone, and
> perform your queries through a regular server.
> 
> Cheers,
> Eric

I realized after I posted it that it was probably doing a reverse
lookup. Does CustomDNS support reverse lookups? How would you set it up?
For bind, it's usually in files like 0.0.127.in-arpa. or whatever. I
grepped the source for "reverse" and couldn't find anything.

Thanks,
-- 
Joel Shellman
KnOcean Interactive Corporation
http://www.knocean.com/

Ok, I'm game.

I'm a developer for Freenet (see www.freenetproject.org if
you're unfamilier with Freenet).  I'm interested in creating
a DNS implementation that can get zone files off Freenet to
augment what is already in the server's cache.  If this works
as well as I hope, it would rearrange the current tree-structured
DNS system into a 'peer' (apologies for the buzzword) structured
system, thus eliminating centralized and often authoritarian
control of the namespace.

Note that this 'Freenet Name Service' is not being done through
the main Freenet development, but through the Everything
Over Freenet (EOF) project (at eof.sourceforge.net).

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I stripped out the espeak stuff and have it running fine. If restrict
resolv.conf to CustomDNS server and run ping on a domain name that
CustomDNS is authoritative for, then it works fine. But if I try to run
nslookup, I get the following error:
# nslookup www.emptydomain.com
*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Not implemented
*** Default servers are not available

Any idea why?

Thank you,
-- 
Joel Shellman
KnOcean Interactive Corporation
http://www.knocean.com/

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 12:28:15PM -0800, Joel Shellman wrote:
> I read the status of CustomDNS, and it sounds like there is no active
> development going on for CustomDNS. Is that true?

I haven't done any work on CustomDNS since September, when I started on my
thesis.  But now I'm back, and perfectly happy to do more work on
CustomDNS--if people are interested.

> I was interested in setting up a DNS hosting service using a DNS server
> written in Java. CustomDNS is the only one I have found. Is there any
> others?

CustomDNS is an enhanced version of Brian Wellington's jnamed, which is not
suitable for production use (at least according to Brian).

> Is CustomDNS suitable for production yet?

CustomDNS is already used by at least one peer-to-peer site.  I helped set
them up, so it's definitely doable.  The underlying architecture is very
modular, and you can integrate it with almost anything.

However, if you intend to use CustomDNS in a production system, you
probably want access to a Java programmer who knows about the DNS protocol.
You don't need any full-time staff, but you do need somebody to set things
up, connect the server to your database, and answer any questions which
arise.

if you already have a Java/DNS hacker in-house, then you're all set.
Otherwise, your best bet is to call either Brian Wellington (the author of
dnjava) or Source Builders (my company).

  http://www.xbill.org/dnsjava/
  http://www.sourcebuilders.com/

Thank you for your interest in CustomDNS!  If you have any further
questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

Cheers,
Eric

I read the status of CustomDNS, and it sounds like there is no active
development going on for CustomDNS. Is that true?

I was interested in setting up a DNS hosting service using a DNS server
written in Java. CustomDNS is the only one I have found. Is there any
others? Is CustomDNS suitable for production yet?

Thank you,
-- 
Joel Shellman
KnOcean Interactive Corporation
http://www.knocean.com/

Hello!

After several years' delay, I've finally finished my degree.  This means
that I'm back in the industry, and I once again have time to hack on open
source projects.

Right now, I'm working on xmlrpc-c <http://xmlrpc-c.sourceforge.net/>, but
there has been a recent rise in CustomDNS mailing list subscriptions.  So
if you folks are interested in CustomDNS, please let me know.

What do you need? Where are you getting stuck? If you're using CustomDNS in
your business, do you have money to spend? :-)

And, just out of curiosity, would you like a single *.jar-file server that
mapped DNS requests into XML-RPC requests?

Cheers,
Eric

Hello!

I can't ping the server running CustomDNS:

  63-203-54-198.insightsol.com

I'll try again later.

Cheers,
Eric

Thanx for the immediate response.

> You can use bind to serve your top-level zone (yourcompany.com) and
> CustomDNS to serve a subzone (users.yourcompany.com). If you need help
> setting up the zone files for both servers, I'd be happy to supply a
> sample configuration.

Yes pls., can I see this sample configuration. Thanx again and more power!

Edward

[I've moved discussion off the announce list (which is for announcement of
new versions) and onto the development list (which is the best place for
questions like this).]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 05:38:43PM +0800, Edward M. Lazatin wrote:
> I want to install customdns and I want to know if it will run with our
> existing dns server (Bind 8.x.x).

You can use bind to serve your top-level zone (yourcompany.com) and
CustomDNS to serve a subzone (users.yourcompany.com). If you need help
setting up the zone files for both servers, I'd be happy to supply a sample
configuration.

> Shall I install customdns together with our dns server? Or it can be on
> any other linux box? Thanks.

CustomDNS can run on the same machine as bind, or on a different machine.
It should run on any Unix-like machine that supports Java and e-speak.  It
could also run under Windows NT, but setup would be more challenging.

Thank you for looking at CustomDNS!

Cheers,
Eric

The new through-the-web interface has been a big win.

Using the standalone client, fewer than one in thirty users managed to update
their address succesfully. Using new the interface, a majority of users
complete the demonstration.

I think we're ready for the roll-out.

Cheers,
Eric

I'm going to polish up these release notes a bit and send them out to all
the usual places (comp.os.linux.announce, LinuxToday, etc.) if nobody has
any objections.

Cheers,
Eric

CustomDNS 0.4
=============

CustomDNS is a modular DNS server written in Java. It's designed to serve
"virtual zones", where addresses get computed on the fly:

  jdoe.users.randomisp.net
  mjf.users.randomisp.net

* Demo

HP's e-speak team has generously provided a temporary demonstration server:

  http://customdns.sourceforge.net/demo.php

This demo works like dyndns.org. You can register hostnames of the form
'host.at.e-speak.net'.

* Credits

CustomDNS is based on Brian Wellington's dnsjava package. It uses HP's
GPL'd e-speak architecture to communicate between modules. Development was
generously funded by HP through sourceXchange.

* Links

Home page:     http://customdns.sourceforge.net/
Downloads:     http://customdns.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

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