<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hi Leonie,<div><br></div><div>thank you for approaching us before making the contribution. Before we accept any code there are two main questions to be asked:</div><div><br></div><div>a) is this going to be useful to anyone else but a handful of researchers?</div><div>b) who is going to maintain the code long term?</div><div><br></div><div>Adding a new transport mechanism to the BIND 9 code isn’t something that can be done by drive-by contribution. It needs to be driven by user-demand and there needs to be clear path of maintainability.</div><div><br></div><div>If you want to undertake the task, this needs to be done properly - implemented as a transport protocol in the lib/isc/netmgr/, accompanied with unit and system tests. This is not something that you can just cram into dig skipping all the abstraction layers.</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps you can start by describing why this should be implemented in BIND 9, what is the intended audience and how do you envision this would be maintained when your semestral project ends?</div><div><br></div><div>Ondrej<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div>Ondřej Surý — ISC (He/Him)<div><br></div><div>My working hours and your working hours may be different. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside your normal working hours.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 1. 11. 2024, at 15:22, Leonie Seelisch <leonie.seelisch@mailbox.tu-dresden.de> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p>we are a group of students from the technical university in Dresden. In the context of a group project, we want to extend BIND and dig with DNS over CoAP [1]. Our plan is it to implement it in BIND as a library and in dig directly in the existing code. For
both, we want to make use of the existing C-library libcoap [2] that already implements CoAP.</p>
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<p>We would appreciate any feedback you can provide so that our efforts can be meaningful and beneficial to the project.</p>
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<p>Thank you for considering our request. We look forward to the opportunity to collaborate with you.</p>
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<p><span id="x_ms-rterangepaste-start"></span><span>Fabian Krusch</span><span id="x_ms-rterangepaste-end"></span>, Leonie Seelisch, <span>Markus Ziehe</span><br>
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<p>[1] <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-core-dns-over-coap" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk364763">
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-core-dns-over-coap</a></p>
[2] <a href="https://libcoap.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk779500">
https://libcoap.net/</a><br>
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