[getdns-users] STUB mode, does it validate DNSSEC security?

[Willem Toorop]

Op 25-02-16 om 19:30 schreef Melinda Shore:
> On 2/25/16 12:20 AM, Rick van Rein wrote:
>> 2. I was looking into GetDNS as an possible alternative for libunbound
>> (and got a bit confused because they're both from NLNet Labs) and if I'm
>> getting it correctly, then GetDNS is meant to be wrapped for
>> script-style languages, but given the string-indexed dictionary
>> structures returned it strikes me as more complex to use in a C program
>> than libunbound; or am I missing something?
> 
> Hi, Rick:
> 
> Yes, there's no question that the original data structure
> design was extremely clunky for C programmers.  This was
> recognized fairly early on, so Willem came up with a

Uh-hum... so Philip Homburg suggested to use expressions in the lookup
strings to get to more deeply nested information for the first time
during the IETF in Prague I believe.  JSON pointer syntax was suggested
by Joe Hildebrand.


> really nice alternative syntax for accessing deeply-nested
> data, for both read and write.  It resembles JSON pointers
> and Unix filesystem paths and saves writing a ton of repetitive
> code.  I wrote up a blog post on it, here:
> 
> http://melindashore.blogspot.com/2016/02/enhanced-getdns-data-access.html
> 
> Melinda
> 
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