SIGs/DNS

Domain Name Services Special Interest Group

Goal

Improve and collaborate on name resolution servers and clients working on Fedora.

Topics

• DNS client tools
• DNSSEC deployment on both server and clients
• Common DNS cache configuration
• Networking/NameResolution
• Networking/Ideas/NetworkNameResolution
• Changes/DNS Over TLS
• Changes/Default Local DNS Resolver
• How to enable DNS over TLS on implementation-indepepdendent way?

Implementations

Universal

• bind9 - pkg:bind, pkg:bind9-next, upstream, upstream source docs
  • in RHEL 7+
  • Feature matrix
  • bind9 Mattermost channel

Recursive

• knot-resolver - pkg:knot-resolver, upstream,docs, upstream source
• powerdns-recursor - upstream
• unbound - pkg:unbound, upstream, upstream source
  • in RHEL 7+

Stub resolvers

• dnsmasq - pkg:dnsmasq, upstream, upstream source
  • in RHEL 7+
• systemd-resolved - pkg:systemd, upstream, upstream source
  • in RHEL 8+ (Tech. preview)
  • Default in Fedora Workstation and Fedora Server
• stubby - pkg:stubby, upstream source
  • DNS over TLS

Authoritative

• powerdns - pkg:pdns upstream
• NSD - pkg:nsd, upstream
• knot dns - pkg:knot, upstream source

Benefit to Fedora

A place to interact and collaborate on different open source implementations providing authoritative, recursive or just stub implementations using DNS protocol.

Communication

Mailing list

• dns-sig at Fedora

IRC

• #dns channel on Libera.Chat
• dns-channel resources

Matrix

• #dns - leads just to above IRC

Mattermost

• DNS-OARC Mattermost

Members

• dns-sig group