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How to install xml2rfc on Debian

Wed, 13 Nov 2019 07:17:36 +0000

Xml2rfc is the tool the IETF uses to convert the canonical XML for an Internet-Draft into text, HTML or a PDF. This utility has seen many releases while the XML schema was being finalized. It’s important (if you write I-Ds) that you have the latest version of xml2rfc installed.

Installing it as a Debian package is done with:

go to https://pypi.org/project/xml2rfc/#files
download the tar archive (say “xml2rfc-2.35.0.tar.gz”)
execute: py2dsc-deb xml2rfc-2.35.0.tar.gz (“py2dsc-deb” can be found in the “python-stdeb” package)
execute: sudo dpkg -i deb_dist/python-xml2rfc_2.35.0-1_all.deb

Note a py2dsc also exists, but that doesn’t create a Debian package.

IETF 101 DNS Hackathon Results

Mon, 19 Mar 2018 07:27:00 +0000

The IETF 101 hackathon has come and gone. I wanted to write up the results of this. See my original plan for the hackathon.

Implement DOH (DNS over HTTPs). Go DNS already implements DNS over TLS, so this shouldn’t be too hard

This turned out to be “too hard” (who would have guessed?). Basically DNS over HTTPS (DoH) doesn’t map to proper DNS at all. See my write up to the DoH mailing list.

IETF 101 DNS Hackathon

Mon, 19 Feb 2018 10:27:00 +0000

The IETF 101 meeting is in London, and while I’m not going to the entire meeting, I thought it would be nice to go to the hackathon and work on Go DNS a bit.

This hackathon takes place in the weekend (and is free of charge, you’ll only need to register), so this leaves two days of ~~hacking~~^W careful coding.

I’m planning to work on the following bits:

Implement DOH (DNS over HTTPs). Go DNS already implements DNS over TLS, so this shouldn’t be too hard (famous last words). The plan here would be:

Extend the Net value in both Client and Server to include https variant.
Testing the client against one of the existing server implementations.
Getting Server side support going.
Unit tests

Time permitting implement gRPC in Go DNS in a “plug in my own transport” fashion. We use gRPC in CoreDNS and having it move to Go DNS would make life simpler. Of course DNS over gRPC is not a standard, so this needs to be pluggeable (there is not exact plan for this).
As these things all use TCP, it might also be worth looking a connection pooling. This is implemented in a CoreDNS plugin, called forward.
- Check if it makes sense to do in the Go DNS library.
- Make a plan.
- Implement.
- Profit.

If you are in the neighborhood and know a bit of Go, you’re welcome to help!

Mmark Updates

Mon, 09 May 2016 18:54:21 +0100

Recent bug reports prompted some Mmark development (guess I am into bug-driven development). New releases can be found on Github. Anyway Mmark saw some bug fixes and new features:

A feature/pull request from blackfriday got merged, meaning that two different lists are not merged into one:

* A
* B

1. One
2. Two

Is now correctly seen as two different lists.

Further more a <br/> is converted to a <vspace/> in the XML output. This is especially useful when you want a vertical space after a definition term. See rfc/rfc7511.md for an example on how to use this.