Support SOA records ($50)

[campadrenalin]

http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/networking_2ndEd/dns/appa_01.htm#INDEX-2486

SOA records seem to be the final stumbling block on the way to being able to correctly resolve ICANN AAAA records, like urlcloud.net. This ticket involves adding support in record.py for SOA binary packing and unpacking according to the spec (see link above).

Probably, the best intermediate form for rdata would be a namedtuple.

[campadrenalin]

Bounty is $50.

http://www.freedomsponsors.org/core/issue/305/support-soa-records

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Add distinctly recognized record type, and appropriate pack and unpack functions, to record.py. Store the data as a namedtuple.

[pczarn]

Could the data be stored as a dict? Perhaps either should be acceptable?

There are no namedtuples in JSON, so json.py would need to recognize record types.

[campadrenalin]

Oh, good point. I totally forgot about the need for JSON serialization
support. Yeah, dict is good.

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Piotr notifications@github.com wrote:

Could the data be stored as a dict? Perhaps either should be acceptable?

There are no namedtuples in JSON, so json.py would need to recognize
record types.

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[campadrenalin]

Excellent work, again, @pczarn. All I had to do is fix a simple merge conflict caused by merging the other branch earlier. Be sure to mark these as complete on Freedomsponsors so I can pay you!