DNSChain deprecates Certificate Authorities and fixes HTTPS

[sugarpuff]

Sent to the devlist:

Hope to have this much more nicely fleshed out sometime around the end of this month.

For now, you can actually play with it locally just to test it out.

1. grab the repo
2. npm install
3. sudo grunt example

May or may not work on your machine (requires namecoind running in the background). Feel free to file issues as you encounter them.

https://github.com/okTurtles/dnsnmc

Current things missing:

1. no configuration atm. this is coming next (via /etc/dnsnmc, ~/.dnsnmc, and CLI args). For now, you can create your own example based off the example source and pass in your or config options manually.
2. a fleshed out secure.nmc api.

But yeah, you should be able to visit http://secure.nmc/d/namecoin in your browser if it runs successfully (and you've got port forwarding enabled for port 80). You can also set your system to use it as a DNS resolver by setting your system DNS settings to 127.0.0.1. After that visiting the various .bit sites should work too.

Feedback welcome, but this is very much a work in progress, and not meant for wide exposure, or any serious use atm.

[sugarpuff]

The first public DNSChain server went live yesterday!

Many changes:

- DNSNMC is now DNSChain!
- Settled on .dns meta-TLD!
- Public old-DNS access via dns.dnschain.net! Ex: http://dns.dnschain.net/id/greg

A systemd unit file is provided in the 'scripts' folder to get you started running your own quickly, reliably, and securely!

https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain

Signed headers in all responses coming soon so that you can be sure that no MITM took place!