[avahi] Wide-Area Write Support and Long Lived Queries

[Andrew Tunnell-Jones]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 15.06.11 09:40, Andrew Tunnell-Jones (andrew at tj.id.au) wrote:
>
>>
>> On 05/06/2011, at 11:51 AM, Andrew Tunnell-Jones wrote:
>>
>> > Hi folks,
>> >
>> > From what I can glean from avahi.org it looks like writable wide-area
>> > support and LLQ were looked at some years back but the work wasn't
>> > finished. The page for milestone 0.7[1] suggests these features are
>> > coming in that release, however as 0.6 has been around quite a few
>> > years and the page also references changes warranted by an RFC updated
>> > in 2005, I'm not sure how relevant that page is. Could someone let me
>> > know what the status of these features is?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Andrew
>> >
>> > 1. http://avahi.org/milestone/Avahi%200.7
>>
>> Has anyone got an answer? Is there anyone else interested in enhancements to wide-area support?
>
> LLQ support is not available right now.
>
> Is server support for LLQ available in any unpached DNS server so far?
> (this was the reason I never bothered to implement it.)
>
> Lennart
>

I've been writing one. It's fairly complete in that Update Leases and
LLQs can be used, but it's quite lacking in documentation, packaging
and admin tools.

https://github.com/andrewtj/dnsxd

Andrew