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* DNSSEC
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* Resolving domains that are broken.
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A more narrative explanation of what `tdns` is and what we hope it will
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achieve can be found [here](intro.md.html).
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# Current status
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`tres` can be used to browse the web successfully. All popular domains work.
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The code is not quite in a teachable state yet and still contains ugly bits.
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But well worth [a
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read](https://github.com/ahupowerdns/hello-dns/tree/master/tdns).
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`tres` can be used to browse the web successfully. All popular domains
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work. The code is not quite in a teachable state yet and still contains
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some ugly bits. But well worth [a
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read](https://github.com/ahupowerdns/hello-dns/blob/master/tdns/tres.cc).
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# Infrastructure
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`tres` uses the same DNS packet parsing/generating code as the `tdns`
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@ -75,9 +74,14 @@ addresses.
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generally succeeds. If it doesn't the resolving algorithm itself is used to
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resolve addresses of the nameserver names we do have.
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`tres` will believe your glue records, which is ok because they are not
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cached. If an authoritative server provides incorrect out-of-zone glue, we
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will happily use it.
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## Trace output
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When run in single-shot mode (ie, `./tres www.powerdns.org A`), a file
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called `plot.dot` is created. Using `graphviz`, this can be turned into a
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pretty diagram like this:
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```
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dot -Tpng plot.dot > plot.png
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```
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# Further details
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The `tres` source code is less than 500 lines of code, so it is suggested to
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