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# $Id: TODO,v 1.131 2005/06/17 01:46:17 evertonm Exp $
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    + = done

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Wishlist:

- Would handling of exceptional events on sockets add any benefit?

- Actually fix the FIXMEs in the code.

- Non-standard HTTP with SRV/_http._tcp.domain, A/domain?

- Use garbage collection for memory management? 
  As build-time option?
  Keep the application in charge of it?
  Anyone?

- Launch auxiliary queries to follow CNAME chains? I believe we
  don't need to use extra queries for CNAME chains, because the
  recursive name server is supposed to fetch the whole chain
  for us. Not sure, though.

- Use round-trip times to better distribute load among recursive
  name servers?

- Add an reverse-lookup layer to the raw resolver in order to
  fetch IN PTR records across CNAME chains?

- Add a CNAME-aware layer to the raw resolver in order to
  fetch arbitrary record types across CNAME chains?

- ruli_txt: Recognize rfc1035-quoting (section 5.1)
            slash"\.".org
            slash"\046".org
            This will require a variable max-length for txt dst 
            decoding buffer.
            Relatively hard at first.

- Use EDNS0 to support larger UDP segments.

- Special behavior (smtp, http, ...) under ruli_getaddrinfo().

- check packaging against Debian Library Packaging Guide:
  http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/


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Changes:

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0.35

- New: Autoconf/automake/libtool support.

- Rgr: Regression test cases for special SRV behavior.
       (SMTP, HTTP, ...)

- Rgr: Basic regression test cases for synchronous API.


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0.34

- New: Add optional logging for RULI major events and/or errors.

- New: Permit the user to limit the number of concurrent queries
       thus preventing accidental overload of the library.

- New: ruli_sync: Periodically (or on usage threshold)
       reload config: /etc/resolv.conf.

- New: ruli_res: Periodically (or on usage threshold)
       refresh config: nameserver list & search list.


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0.33

+ Fix: ruli_getaddrinfo: Mikael Magnusson patch to respect address
       family specified in hints.

+ Fix: Support for RFC3484 - destination address selection.

+ New: SONAME increased to reflect ABI change.


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0.32

+ Fix: Sort MX records by priority.

+ Fix: Sort addresses by family, delivering IPv6 first, if any.

+ Fix: ruli_http: Support for specific srv-based queries for http.

+ New: Binding for Lua language.


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0.31

+ Cln: Minor clean-ups.

+ New: Perl module 0.02: namespace "Net::RULI".

+ New: Java native interface.


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0.30

+ Fix: Compilation fix for gcc 3.4.

+ Fix: Better error code reporting for Guile extension.

+ Fix: Solaris port.


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0.29

+ New: Guile extension.


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0.28

+ Cln: Use ruli_host for all address lookups.
       + walk: + Use ruli_host for address lookups.
               + Major clean-up.
       + fall: + Use ruli_host for address lookups.
               + Major clean-up.

+ Fix: Increase SONAME due to ABI changes (changed struct's members).
       API remains though.


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0.27

+ Fix: Removed INSTALL_DIR from compiler/linker search path.

+ New: Resolver options.
       + uri_port
       + nowalk
       + nofall

+ New: ruli_host: CNAME-aware, family-agnostic, address lookup layer.


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0.26

+ Fix: ruli_smtp: Perform extra "walk" queries for MX exchange which
       has no corresponding address record in the additional section?
       Shouldn't MX additional processing handle this for us in the
       recursive resolver? It seems MX TTL > MX target TTL partially
       defeats "MX additional processing", unfortunately. Thus we
       actually need to to work-around this issue by issuing queries
       for address records.

+ New: Symbol versioning in shared library.

+ Fix: Solaris port.

+ Fix: ruli_addr: Better IPv6 print helper.

+ Cln: Prefix internal non-static functions with '_'.


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0.25

+ Fix: ruli_srv: Perform 2 separate queries for addresses (IN_AAAA,
       IN_A), instead of a single IN_ANY query.
       + walk_query
       + fall_query

+ Fix: Debian compiler warning for m68k, powerpc, hppa.


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0.24

+ New: IPv6 support: AAAA resource records.

+ Fix: Better portability for ruli_getaddrinfo().


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0.23

+ Fix: Add IPv6 support for 'tools'.

+ Fix: Perl binding updated to new address-family-aware API.

+ Fix: PHP binding updated to new address-family-aware API.

+ Fix: Incorrect pointer arithmetic in ruli_getaddrinfo().


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0.22

+ New: IPv6 support: PF_INET6 protocol family as transport.

+ New: Change fsm to use IPv6 UDP sockets. TCP is for free.

+ New: load IPv6 nameserver addresses.

+ New: API changed to support IPv6.

+ New: ruli_inet6_ntoa(): detect valid IPv6 address.

+ New: Added ruliwrap wrapper (from http://weinholt.se/hacks/)
       as ruli_getaddrinfo().


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0.21

+ Fix: 'class' replaced by 'qclass' to avoid clash with c++ keyword.

+ Cln: Better support for Debian packaging.

+ Cln: Better portability.


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0.20

+ New: Example programs for the Perl module.

+ New: Minimal man pages for sample programs.

+ New: Debian binary package 'libruli-bin' for sample programs.


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0.19

+ New: Binding for Perl.


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0.18

+ Cln: More friendly to Debian packaging.

+ New: Added bogus manpage for Debian.

+ New: Added 'debian' directory for package debianization.

+ Fix: Retrieve MX Exchange (in place of MX Owner) as SRV target.

+ New: Binding for PHP4.


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0.17

+ Cln: Compatibility with newer gcc.

+ Fix: Better handling of remotely closed connection.

+ New: Better internal array structure.


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0.16

+ Fix: Default config unloader was being improperly called.

+ New: Return priority/weight values in high-level interfaces.

+ New: Non-standard SMTP with SRV/_smtp._tcp.domain, MX/domain, 
       A/domain.


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0.15

+ Fix: Server round-robin scanning is reset for every suffix of the
       search list.

+ Cln: More ISAAC name space clean-ups.

+ New: ruli_search: Simpler, higher-level API for SRV queries.
       Previous RULI's standard SRV API (ruli_srv) seemed too
       complex for simple queries with trivial behavior.

+ Fix: Sample tools have been using incorrect buffer sizes for
       domain names in textual form. This limited the maximum
       domain name length to 252 characters instead of 253.

+ New: Sample programs under 'sample' directory show how to
       write SRV-aware applications.

+ Cln: ruli_sync based on ruli_search.

+ New: ruli_search: Higher-level API for easy resolver creation.

+ Fix: Regression errors.


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0.14

+ ruli_txt: Clean-up label handling API: ruli_txt.

+ ruli_res: Implement search list.

+ ruli_sync: Use a search list as defined by
  'search'/'domain' clauses of /etc/resolv.conf.

+ Code clean-up.


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0.13

+ ruli_rand: Use random generator with explicit state: ISAAC.

+ Clean up of ISAAC name space.

+ Follow CNAME chains while falling back to IN A queries.
  Would require loop detection or limit the max chain depth.

+ Basic regression test cases for SRV API.

+ Clean up of obsolete domain comparisson code.

+ Fixed possible memory leaking in fallback answer processing.

+ Fixed possible memory leaking in "walk" answer processing.


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0.12

+ Code clean-up.

+ Comprehensive, automated regression test cases for underlying
  resolver.

+ Stricter (paranoid) checking of servers answers for flags, opcode.


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0.11

+ ruli_srv: Better RCODE kind semantics.

+ Report timeout (alarm) condition on sample tools.

+ Checking of target-walk and fallback answer IN A records.

+ Code clean-up.

+ Stricter compiler warnings.

+ Minor bugfix: ruli_srv_t.qdomain_len was not being initialized.

+ ruli_srv: Check owner match.

+ ruli_txt: Detect name compression loop.


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0.10

+ Return error when fallback IN A query can't find any
  address.

+ Portability fixes for Solaris 7.

+ Synchronization with HTML documentation.

+ syncsolver: Minor fix for stdin parsing.


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0.9

+ Fixed assert() triggered by late UDP answers reaching
  us when we have switched to another state due to timeout.

+ Better checks of function return results for ruli_list_new(),
  ruli_list_parse(), ruli_list_push().
      
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