Good morning, Brussels!

Second day of #FOSDEM https://fosdem.org/2026/

FOSDEM 2026 - Home

#DNS devroom. Because it's always DNS when it works.

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We start with #Rust: last news of the domain crate.

First big user of this library is #Cascade, the #DNSSEC signer.

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For #DNSSEC, the domain crate can use different crypto backends such as the ring crate or the #OpenSSL bindings. (But there are more.)

There is now a common-line tool to query the DNS, dnsi. And a CLI tool to do misc. manipulations, dnst ("people are using the ldns library example programs in production"). And a key manager, keyset.

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The #DNS devroom is full. Stop trying to enter!

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Now, no longer Rust, we switch to a real language, Erlang. The authoritative name server erldns at DNSimple.

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A good mission statement for DNS Tapir "Breaking the bad, stopping the ugly"

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DNS Tapir analyzes #DNS query data. Among the challenges, privacy, if you want to give access to these data.

Obviously, "anonymization" is a joke and so is pseudonymization. DNS Tapir aggregates instead.

https://www.dnstapir.se/

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DNS TAPIR

Checking software updates with the #DNS https://mastodon.gougere.fr/@DNSresolver/115995030018880844

Go has a transparency log of its software, for supply-chains security https://www.gopherwatch.org/

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And this log can now be queried through #DNS https://mastodon.gougere.fr/@DNSresolver/115995045484678683

(and with #DNSSEC authentication)

Built with the excellent Go DNS library https://github.com/miekg/dns

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And then on top of that, you can implement automatic software updates. No more unpatched vulnerabilities.

With a real live demo, complete with an error message (No space left on device)

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"#DNS, a love affair with lovecraftian horrors"

Nice horrible font on the titles at the slides.

https://mastodon.gougere.fr/@DNSresolver/115995180261693055

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