Unlike those, this project is a single-purpose tool acting as a (real
time) bridge between [Namecoin](http://namecoin.info/) and DNS.
-[PowerDNS](https://www.powerdns.com/) provides a stable DNS frontend,
-with an easy to implement backend interface. The latter is used in
-this project.
+It is implemented as a `pipe backend` to
+[PowerDNS](https://www.powerdns.com/), which provides stable DNS
+frontend, and has simple backend interface.
## Building
## Status
-Alpha. It does not handle `SRV` records at all, does not support
-`delegate` (not to mention `import`), provides bogus version in the
-`SOA` record, and is largely untested. Try at your risk.
+Alpha. It is insufficiently tested, and there are loose ends in the
+functionality. For example, version in the `SOA` record is bogus.
+Some of the the problems are due to incomplete and/or imprecise
+[definition of the domain data format](https://wiki.namecoin.info/index.php?title=Domain_Name_Specification)
+on the wiki. That said, I am using it to access some of the `.bit` websites
+and did not notice anomalies so far.
+
+Try at your risk.
## Getting the Source
[browse](http://www.average.org/gitweb/?p=pdns-pipe-nmc.git;a=summary),
or use [github mirror](https://github.com/crosser/pdns-pipe-nmc).
+Here is a statically linked Linux binary:
+[pdns-pipe-nmc.x86\_64.2014-04-20.git-e9bd43f](http://www/average/org/pdns-pipe-nmc/pdns-pipe-nmc.x86_64.2014-04-20.git-e9bd43f) with pgp [signature](http://www/average/org/pdns-pipe-nmc/pdns-pipe-nmc.x86_64.2014-04-20.git-e9bd43f.sig).
+
## Author
Eugene Crosser \<crosser at average dot org\>
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