GNU bug report logs - #26829
Add knot service

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>

Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 15:24:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: julien lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
Cc: 26829 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26829: Add knot service
Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 18:36:17 +0200
Hello,

julien lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu> skribis:

> Le 2017-05-28 19:34, ludo <at> gnu.org a écrit :
>> Hi Julien,
>>
>> Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu> skribis:
>>
>>> So, pushed as ba69e8f7ce21a81bdd5b99fdb1cc64492443e15c.
>>
>> Very nice and very useful notably for self-hosting use cases!
> That's exactly why I did that :). I'm currently self-hosting my
> services on debian, and I would like to move to guixSD at some point,
> so I'm writing services I need.

Excellent.  :-)

>> I have two minor comments:
>>
>>   1. What it would it take to write tests for this?  I assume we could
>>      simply make DNS requests locally?
> I have never written a system test, so I don't know how it works. If
> we check only that requests are answered correctly locally, I think
> that would be great but limited to the "master" scenario. Then there
> is the "slave" scenario, where we would need a zone transfer between
> two hosts. And we could also check that transfer occurs only to
> authorized slaves.

OK.  I guess I know too little about DNS to make any useful comment.

>>   2. For things like:
>>
>>      +@item @code{nsec3-salt-lifetime} (default: @code{"30d"})
>>
>>      I prefer using an integer denoting the number of seconds, and then
>>      letting users do the multiplication or use (string->duration
>> "30d").
>>      I did that for ‘guix-publish-service’.
> I didn't know it existed, but it looks nicer indeed. I'll see what I
> can do.

OK!  Note that I’m not saying that the service code should use
‘string->duration’ directly, but rather that the service code should use
integers to represent duration (in seconds).

Thank you,
Ludo’.




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