What to expect in NS8?

[davidep (Davide Principi)]

@djx

DNS, DHCP, services, etc. I don’t see any of this in NS8.

We already have plans for DNS. Nothing decided yet, it’s just a future goal. It was discussed here:

NethServer 8 built in DNS

Well by now the only DNS server software included in NS8 is the Samba built-in DNS and that’s not managed automatically: existing modules do not need an internal DNS service to run. ATM DNS is only a service provided by someone else. Creating a DNS module for NS8 shouldn’t be too difficult though. Of course it would conflict with Samba DC on port 53, so they can’t live on the same node. I think that’s not a big issue because a NS8 system manages also multiple nodes. What I’d consider an intere…

DHCP is a firewall feature. It could be implemented by a NS8 module too, but this is not planned at all.

@djx

It’s starting to feel like NS8 is meant to be a standalone application server that sits within more infrastructure that includes its own firewall and network configuration, as opposed to being “the central server” which is how NS7 seems to operate. Is this true?

Yes, I can repeat it another time: we split the firewall from NethServer. This is the basic design choice we discussed here since we started NS8 planning

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