ENS support

[silverpill]

Hi! Can PopuraDNS support resolution of ENS (Ethereum Name System) domains?

ENS doesn't officially support A or AAAA records but perhaps records of text type could be used instead.

[zhoreeq]

Sure, it can.

I've experimented with ens coredns plugin before. It'd be nice to add, however, it pulls in a huge go-ethereum dependency and requires CGO enabling. Not cool.

Since not everybody would need that, maybe, ENS support could be added to a side branch. Or, add it to the master branch and add a "light" branch without the ENS plugin.

I'll think about it!

[silverpill]

Does it literally pull go-ethereum? 😮
The plugin description says it can be configured to connect to remote JSON-RPC endpoint as well. (This is not ideal, but could be acceptable in some situations.)

[v1rtl]

go-ethereum is not required for interacting with ENS - you can send raw HTTP requests to an Ethereum JSONRPC and use standard cryptographic utilities. I've done this in the past with C. wealdtech ENS plugin works with an obsolete ENSIP to my knowledge. As a rule, ENS-powered websites resolve not through DNS records but contentHash, which usually is an IPFS, Swarm or Arweave hash (could as well be Tor but that's rarely used).

Let me know if I could assist anyhow in helping support ENS.