README.md

ssb-dns

It's fairly easy to serve dns from a nodejs process.

scuttlebot makes it easy to work with a peer-to-peer log store.

So let's mash them together.

What could go wrong?

Installation

git clone https://github.com/ansuz/ssb-dns;
cd ssb-dns;
npm i;

By default, the server will listen on 127.0.0.1:53053.

If you'd prefer, you can cp config.js.dist config.js and edit config.js to suit your needs.

NOTE:So far the publishing script is hardcoded to reject records which don't end in .ssb.

This was cSmith's idea.

In the future this might be genralized to squat even more TLDs, or to simply be unopinionated about them.

./publish.js {domain name} {record type} {value} [optionally add a dns class]

dig @localhost -p 53053 {name} {type}

Can I use this without running scuttlebot?

You could get a friend to host it if you really trust them.

Is it Enterprise-Ready?

Hell no. It barely works

Does it protect against name-squatting?

Not even a little bit.

Does it resolve conflicts if they occur?

Not yet.

What is it good for?

If there is a DNS outage you can still resolve any you or your friends have published to ssb
If you don't have access to the internet at all, this will continue to work (for some definition of work)
You can use this as a kind of distributed hosts file

How optimized is this?

Not even a little bit, and it doesn't exactly fail gracefully either.