Re: [GNUnet-developers] Goodbye ".gnu"

[Schanzenbach, Martin]

Hi,

I think I "fixed" the proxy. It is not pretty but works for me now.



> On 5. Mar 2018, at 18:42, Christian Grothoff <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On 03/05/2018 05:14 PM, Schanzenbach, Martin wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I need two clarifications as this change basically broke everything ;)
> 
> "everything"!? :-(
> 
>> 1. API:
>> The GNS_lookup API call takes a zone to look up in. Previously tools looked 
>> up the "gns-master" for a sane default value.
>> This is no longer needed I guess??
>> If yes, we should remove it.
> 
> It is needed, because the API allows a _personalized_ lookup.
> When I have a multi-user system, the gnunet-service-gns runs as
> "gnunet", while the client runs as some other user.  The idea is that
> this other user may have the .TLD=PKEY configuration file options or the
> identities, which determine the zone.  So the client should first
> determine the zone based on the TLD (and determine whether GNS should be
> used in the first place), and then trigger the lookup for what remains
> of the name.
> 
> That said, I do intend to add a convenience API where libgnunetgns
> determines the zone based on the TLD.
> 
>> 2. Proxy:
>> The proxy still uses gns-master for lookups. Now the question is if the 
>> application calling lookup should handle the TLD or of the resolver takes 
>> case of that automagically.  From your change in the CLI tool I assume the 
>> former?
> 
> I've not yet finished (or started) work on the proxy. I guess I should
> finish the convenience API first, as that will be helpful for the proxy
> as well.
> 
> Happy hacking!
> 
> Christian
> 


- Martin

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