petnames 0.1.20251118

PetName and Distributed Directory Name resolver

PetName and Distributed Directory Name resolver

This tool resolves names to addresses, starting from your local directory and following links to other directories.

PROTOTYPE! This is still a work-in-progress. Currently only the local-directory resolving is implemented.

To try it out:

• Clone this repository
• Install the package with pip install .
• Create a file ~/.local/share/petnames/local/server1.txt containing lines like these:

suggested_name=Server One
reti_dest=dst0aabbccddeeffaabbccddeeffaabbccdd
reti_id=id0bacdbacd...

• Run ddig server1 which should display the properties you created

There is also a modified version of rnx.py which will resolve names instead of destination hashes, so you can run:

./rnx.py server1 'cat /proc/cpuinfo'

Usage:

ddig NAME [PROPERTY]

NAME is a sequence of names joined by periods ("dots")

PROPERTY is the record property you want to retrieve (default: 'all')