2019-08-29 - Future - Tony Finch
I'm back from a summer holiday and it is "Back to School" season, so now seems like a good time to take stock and write down some plans.
This is roughly in order of priority.
- IP Register v3 web interface
- COTS IPAM evaluation
- New server hardware
- Operating system upgrade
- Abolish old authdns server names
- And then...
IP Register v3 web interface
This has been my main focus over the last few months. The remaining work is:
the list, xlist, and table ops pages;
more friendly input validation;
documentation, both internals and user-facing;
deployment!
COTS IPAM evaluation
As a possible alternative to IP Register v4. I should have enough headspace to look at this properly after the v3 rollout.
New server hardware
The current recursive DNS server hardware is nearly 5 years old so it is due for a refresh. (The recursive servers are bare metal to avoid dependency loops with other services.)
Operating system upgrade
The DNS systems need to move from Debian 9 "Stretch" to 10 "Buster". It's probably easiest to do this after the new hardware has arrived.
Abolish old authdns server names
This is a leftover from the renaming project started last year. This involves:
completing the registr* client automation for maintaining our domain delegations;
updating our secondary DNS arrangements, probably including separating zone transfers and secondary service from our authoritative servers;
And then...
After that there will be more work moving the back-end IP Register database off Oracle on Jackdaw, then more work on improving the web user interface. The details are murky.