MaraDNS
nixpkgs
MaraDNS | nixpkgs | |
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9 | 975 | |
486 | 15,656 | |
- | 2.2% | |
8.6 | 10.0 | |
5 days ago | 7 days ago | |
C | Nix | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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MaraDNS
- MaraDNS: A small open-source DNS server
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Validate websites properties behind reverse proxy
You could potentially host a dns server in docker (https://mpolinowski.github.io/docs/DevOps/Provisioning/2022-01-25--installing-bind9-docker/2022-01-25/) (https://4sysops.com/archives/configure-a-private-dns-server-in-docker/) or even on windows (https://maradns.samiam.org/) and point the system doing the lookups to use that server. Put in your own records, and then have it do forward lookups for anything else.
- MaraDNS – A small open-source DNS server
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We are stuck with egrep and fgrep (unless you like beating people)
While you haven’t used egrep that much, I used it a whole lot, well over 20 times for the automated test setup I have for my open source project. I had to spend most of an hour this morning updating the code to no longer use egrep, and it was non-trivial to update. Here’s the amount of hassle breaking egrep has given me:
https://github.com/samboy/MaraDNS/commit/afc9d1800f3a641bdf1...
This is just one open source project. I’ve seen fgrep in use for well over 25 years and egrep apparently has been around for a very long time too. Just because it didn’t get enshrined in a Posix document—OK, according to Paul Eggert it was made obsolete by Posix in 1992, but apparently no one got the telegram and it’s been a part of Linux since the beginning and is also a part of busybox—doesn’t mean it’s something which should be removed.
I’m just glad I caught this thread and was able to “update” my code.
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GitHub with degraded performance for Git Operations
That is very true, and I do my utmost to avoid any kind of vendor lock in.
Testing is done in a Docker container, so the CI/CD pipeline is available in a Dockerfile and the scripts the Dockerfile imports in to the testing container. In my case: https://github.com/samboy/MaraDNS/tree/master/Docker-stuff
Bug reports and support requests are handled using Github, mainly because that’s what is widely used in the industry right now, but bugs actually fixed are usually described in Git commits, where the information can easily be mirrored.
- Please do not put IP addresses into DNS MX records
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GitHub Stale Bots – A False Economy
I think it’s irresponsible to let bugs languish like this. The way I handle bug reports is to say “Hey, look, I just can’t fix this right now because I’m working full time and don’t know when I’ll be able to get around to fixing this without getting paid for my work.” E.g. https://github.com/samboy/MaraDNS/issues/84
I can see why a lot of people don’t do that: It’s a little rude, and there’s a small but significant chance it’ll become a flame war. I have only once had someone get rude in a ticket when I told them “That’s not a bug report, but a support issue”; I ended up deleting the ticket. GitHub also allows you to edit or delete other people’s comments in your tickets, as well as locking the conversation.
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Cursed IP Address Representations
Since I write a Lua-parsed DNS server which works with IPv6, even when compiled for an ancient version of MINGW on Windows XP (which has IPv6 support but no built-in IPv6 parser), I had to write an IPv6 address parser.
No, I did not add dotted quad notation to the parser. No, you can not have more than four hex digits in a single quad; 00000000 becomes 0000:0000 with the parser. It supports “normal” stuff like ::, ::1, 2001:db8::1, and even non-normal stuff like “2001-0db8-1234-5678 0000-0000-0000-0005” (to be compatible with the really basic IPv6 parser I put in MaraDNS’s recursive resolver nearly two years ago), but none of the corner cases in the linked article.
The IPv6 test cases in the automated test for the parser are at: https://github.com/samboy/MaraDNS/blob/master/deadwood-githu...
nixpkgs
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Nix: The Breaking Point
I don't think so. The article is probably intended for the Nix community, so the author doesn't need to convince HN that something is going on. If as an outsider you are interested then you need to look into it yourself, the community has no obligation to make their internal conflicts legible to the outside world.
As an outsider myself, it certainly looks like something is going on as more than 20 Nixpkg maintainers left in a week: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=label%3A%228.has%3...
- Maintainers Leaving
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Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits?author=neon-sunset
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Eelco Dolstra's leadership is corrosive to the Nix project
I see two signers in the top 6 displayed on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/graphs/contributors
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3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup
For a single file script, nix can make the package management quite easy: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/languages-f...
For example,
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- NixOS/nixpkgs: There isn't a clear canonical way to refer to a specific package
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NixOS Is Not Reproducible
Yes, Nix doesn't actually ensure that the builds are deterministic. In fact it works just fine if they aren't. There are packages in nixpkgs that aren't reproducible: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss...
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The xz attack shell script
I'm not familiar with Bazel, but Nix in it's current form wouldn't have solved this attack. First of all, the standard mkDerivation function calls the same configure; make; make install process that made this attack possible. Nixpkgs regularly pulls in external resources (fetchUrl and friends) that are equally vulnerable to a poisoned release tarball. Checkout the comment on the current xz entry in nixpkgs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/comp...
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Debian Git Monorepo
NixOS uses a monorepo and I think everyone's love it.
I love being able to easily grep through all the packages source code and there's regularly PRs that harmonizes conventions across many packages.
Nixpkgs doesn't include the packaged software source code, so it's a lot more practical than what Debian is doing.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
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From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs
In this specific case, nix uses fetchFromGitHub to download the source archive, which are generated by GitHub for the specified revision[1]. Arch seems to just download the tarball from the releases page[2].
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/3c2fdd0a4e6396fc310a6e...
[2]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ib...
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