Post remaining bounties on some issue?

[taoeffect]

We've got $120 left in BountySource that we can put on something.

I'm thinking maybe one of:

• Debian package #109 Debian package (FreedomBox Plinth module #110 depends on this)
• Feature Request: Pfsense Package #51 PFSense package
• Add stats via redis or memcached #10 Add stats via redis or memcached (this requires first merging admin branch tho)
• Add sendmail-type support for reporting critical errors #14 Add sendmail-type support for reporting critical errors

cc @SGrondin @wemeetagain

Anyone else feel free to chime in!

[Napoleon]

+1 pfsense #51

[tofutim]

oh yeah, another vote for pfsense #51

[tofutim]

I think for this to be successful, inclusion in mass produced hardware will be very helpful. Is it hard to make a pfsense package?

[tofutim]

Ignorant question: does dnschain work in FreeBSD?

Update. I can confirm that I can run dnschain in FreeBSD using the following steps:

pkg install npm
npm install -g coffee-script
pkg install git
pkg install python
pkg install gmake
pkg install gcc
cd /usr/local/bin 
ln -s gcc48 gcc
ln -s g++48 g++
npm install -g dnschain

The bigger problem is running namecoin. With pkg install namecoin, you can get the QT client - namecoin-qt, but sadly pkg install namecoin-daemon does not work, although interestingly pkg install bitcoin-daemon does work. Finally, would one use PowerDNS? Something from pfsense? Does dnschain by itself work as a DNS source?

it is said that namecoin-daemon is a slave port of namecoin-qt. Is there some special magic in FreeBSD to install "slave ports"?

[taoeffect]

Finally, would one use PowerDNS? Something from pfsense? Does dnschain by itself work as a DNS source?

You can use DNSChain as a traditional DNS server, but I personally don't recommend it (yet). I think PowerDNS' recursor has been tuned to do that job efficiently and well. More work needs to be done on native-dns for it to be at parity with PowerDNS. The two work great together though.

[taoeffect]

As far as Namecoin on FreeBSD goes, you can always try compiling namecoind from source.

[taoeffect]

After some considered thought, it's become clear to me that Issue #101 — Switch to getdns-node instead of native-dns is of highest priority, so the $120 bounty is going on that, and I strongly encourage other users of DNSChain to donate bounties to that issue as well.

Reason being: native-dns is not a very good DNS library, and it seems to be somewhat abandoned right now. I do not have the time to work on improving it. With a switch to getdns, DNSChain should work great as a standalone DNS server for traditional DNS and we wouldn't need to recommend PowerDNS alongside it.