#!/usr/bin/env ruby # Copyright (c) 2009, 2011 Samuel G. D. Williams. # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy # of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal # in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights # to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell # copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is # furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in # all copies or substantial portions of the Software. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR # IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE # AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER # LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, # OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN # THE SOFTWARE. require 'rubygems' require 'rexec' require 'rexec/daemon' require 'rubygems' require 'rubydns' # To run this command, use the standard daemon syntax as root # ./daemon2.rb start # You should be able to see that the server has dropped priviledges # # ps aux | grep daemon2.rb # daemon 16555 0.4 0.0 81392 2024 ?? S 3:35am 0:00.28 ruby ../test/daemon2.rb start # Test using the following command # dig @localhost test.mydomain.org # dig +tcp @localhost test.mydomain.org # You might need to change the user name "daemon". This can be a user name or a user id. RUN_AS = "daemon" INTERFACES = [ [:udp, "0.0.0.0", 53], [:tcp, "0.0.0.0", 53] ] # We need to be root in order to bind to privileged port if RExec.current_user != "root" $stderr.puts "Sorry, this command needs to be run as root!" exit 1 end # The Daemon itself class Server < RExec::Daemon::Base Name = Resolv::DNS::Name IN = Resolv::DNS::Resource::IN def self.run # Don't buffer output (for debug purposes) $stderr.sync = true # Use upstream DNS for name resolution (These ones are Orcon DNS in NZ) $R = Resolv::DNS.new(:nameserver => ["8.8.8.8"]) # Start the RubyDNS server RubyDNS::run_server(:listen => INTERFACES) do on(:start) do RExec.change_user(RUN_AS) end match("test.mydomain.org", IN::A) do |transaction| transaction.respond!("10.0.0.80") end # Default DNS handler otherwise do |transaction| logger.info "Passthrough: #{transaction}" transaction.passthrough!($R) end end end end # RExec daemon runner Server.daemonize