• Author: Samuel G. D. Williams (http://www.oriontransfer.co.nz)
• Copyright (C) 2009, 2011 Samuel G. D. Williams.
• Released under the MIT license.
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RubyDNS is a simple programmatic DSL (domain specific language) for configuring and running a DNS server. RubyDNS provides a daemon that runs a DNS server which can process DNS requests depending on specific policy. Rule selection is based on pattern matching, and results can be hard-coded, computed, fetched from a remote DNS server, fetched from a local cache, etc.

RubyDNS provides a full daemon server using RExec. You can either use the built in daemon, customize it to your needs, or specify a full daemon implementation.

RubyDNS is not designed to be high-performance and uses a thread-per-request model. This is designed to make it as easy as possible to achieve concurrent performance. This is also due to the fact that many other APIs work best this way (unfortunately).

For examples please see the main project page.

This is copied from test/example1.rb. It has been simplified slightly.

require 'rubygems' require 'rubydns' $R = Resolv::DNS.new RubyDNS::run_server do	Name = Resolv::DNS::Name	IN = Resolv::DNS::Resource::IN	# For this exact address record, return an IP address	match("dev.mydomain.org", IN::A) do |transaction|	transaction.respond!("10.0.0.80")	end	match(/^test([0-9]+).mydomain.org$/, IN::A) do |match_data, transaction|	offset = match_data[1].to_i	if offset > 0 && offset < 10	logger.info "Responding with address #{"10.0.0." + (90 + offset).to_s}..."	transaction.respond!("10.0.0." + (90 + offset).to_s)	else	logger.info "Address out of range: #{offset}!"	false	end	end	# Default DNS handler	otherwise do |transaction|	logger.info "Passing DNS request upstream..."	transaction.passthrough!($R)	end end 

After starting this server you can test it using dig:

dig @localhost test1.mydomain.org dig @localhost dev.mydomain.org dig @localhost google.com 

From RubyDNS version 0.4.0, the recommended minimum Ruby version is 1.9.3 for complete support. Some features may not work as expected on Ruby version 1.8.x and it is not tested significantly.

Due to changes in resolv.rb, superficial parts of RubyDNS have changed. Rather than using :A to specify A-records, one must now use the class name.

match(..., :A) 

becomes

IN = Resolv::DNS::Resource::IN match(..., IN::A) 

• Support for more features of DNS such as zone transfer
• Support reverse records more easily
• Better support for deferred requests/concurrency.

Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Samuel G. D. Williams. http://www.oriontransfer.co.nz

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