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Razvan Dimescu 9c71e9bb3f refactor to async tokio with modular architecture

- Replace synchronous std::net::UdpSocket with tokio async runtime
- Spawn concurrent task per incoming DNS query via tokio::spawn
- Extract monolithic main.rs into modules: buffer, header, question,
  record, packet, config, cache, forward, stats
- Share state across tasks via Arc<ServerCtx> with scoped Mutex locks
- Add TOML config loading, TTL-aware cache, structured logging, stats
- Add CLAUDE.md, README, dns_fun.toml config, and design docs

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-03-10 04:50:16 +02:00

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CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Overview

A DNS forwarding/caching proxy in Rust. Serves local zone records from TOML config, caches upstream responses with TTL-based expiration, forwards unknown queries to an upstream resolver, and logs all queries with structured output.

Build & Run

cargo build                         # compile
sudo cargo run                      # run with default config (dns_fun.toml)
sudo cargo run -- path/to/config    # run with custom config path
RUST_LOG=debug sudo cargo run       # verbose logging

Test with: dig @127.0.0.1 google.com

No tests or linter configured.

Architecture

src/
  lib.rs        # module declarations, Error/Result type aliases
  main.rs       # startup, config load, UDP listen loop, request pipeline
  buffer.rs     # BytePacketBuffer — 512-byte DNS wire format read/write
  header.rs     # DnsHeader, ResultCode — 12-byte header bitfield parsing
  question.rs   # DnsQuestion, QueryType — query section (A, NS, CNAME, MX, AAAA)
  record.rs     # DnsRecord — resource record variants with read/write
  packet.rs     # DnsPacket — top-level: header + questions + answers + authorities + resources
  config.rs     # Config loading from TOML, zone map builder
  cache.rs      # DnsCache — TTL-aware cache with lazy eviction
  forward.rs    # forward_query() — sends query to upstream, build_servfail() — error response
  stats.rs      # ServerStats — query counters and periodic summary

Request Pipeline

Query → Parse → Log → Local Zones → Cache → Upstream Forward (+ cache result) → Log → Respond

Config

dns_fun.toml at project root. Sections: [server], [upstream], [cache], [[zones]]. Falls back to sensible defaults if file is missing.

Logging

Controlled via RUST_LOG env var. Default level: info (one structured line per query). debug adds response details. Stats summary every 1000 queries.

Key Details

Rust 2018 edition, deps: serde, toml, log, env_logger
DNS packet size limited to 512 bytes (standard UDP DNS)
BytePacketBuffer::read_qname handles label compression (pointer jumps)
type Error = Box<dyn std::error::Error> / type Result<T> aliased in lib.rs
Cache: TTL clamped between min_ttl and max_ttl, lazy eviction every 1000 queries

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