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No; not really. I don't have Windows experience and don't really know how to intercept DNS requests on Windows. Apparently you have to load a DLL and hook up to some function.
Feel free to contribute a port. :-)

I have collected some links thought:

• http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/16194/Intercept-and-Rewrite-DNS-Requests-Using-Regular-E
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5992700/can-i-temporarily-override-dns-resolution-within-a-net-application
• http://sourcesecure.net/2011/03/dll-redirection-tutorial/
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc961921.aspx

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Heh, I am too, don't use windows, but for spreading to the world, windows support - is good thing.

I think, we can start it on windows like normal dns (dns proxy) and change dns settings to localhost.

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I wonder if it is possible to redirect DNS requests for a specifc TLD (.p2p) to a local DNS server. I haven't been able to find out.

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I mean proxy all DNS requests - set 127.0.0.1:some port in dns settings, then, if domain not .p2p - redirect to normal dns or to 8.8.8.8

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KadNode does not redirect DNS requests. That would need quite some code to accomplish.
Also, we would need to honor local DNS settings. Not just redirect everything to a hardcoded DNS server.

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Why? we can take DNS ip from DHCP packets, then replace with localhost.

For dns server code you can take bind for windows.

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KadNode has no access to DHCP packets.
If Bind is installed on Windows then we can configure Bind to redirect the .p2p requests.

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ok, if you can compile it for windows, i try to config bind then you can make Bind+kadnode bundle

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I will give it try.

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Good news everyone! I have got it to build (including libsodium) using Cygwin. But it does not start properly yet.

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Good! I hope in future we get win version

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The remaining problem is a current limitation of Cygwin (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6140734/cannot-bind-to-multicast-address-windows). It works if we disable local peer discovery (--disable-multicast).

http://www.filedropper.com/showdownload.php/files_5

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The issue might be solved in cywin in one/two months - maybe.

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Any progress with packaging so far?

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Here is a build howto: https://github.com/mwarning/KadNode/blob/master/windows/README.md

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Maybe hooking to Windows Host resolution through NetBios?

A Windows machine can be configured to contact multiple WINS server for host resolution.
If KadNode's Windows version is a WINS server, and the machine is configured to use it, it could in theory provide kadnode hostname lookup on Windows without nasty tricks (no interception, no proxying, ..)

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-netbios-name-resolution-really-works/

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I dont't have time to investigate or experiment at the moment, but here are a couple existing open WINS implementation:

• LWINS (Lightweight WINS server) - standalone server - http://www.lwins.org/
• Samba's WINS server - part of Samba (relatively big software) - http://oreilly.com/openbook/samba/book/ch07_03.html

LWINS seems to be a better solution (lighter), but I don't know if its GPLv2 license is compatible with KadNode (maybe through linking?).

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Thanks for the help. I have a hard time solving this.

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It's not a common problem to solve.

But maybe a few peoples already looked into that. For instance alternative DNS root projects (OpenNIC, NameCoin, Tor). I'm looking through their docs to understand how others solved this:

• NameCoin depends on using a specific DNS server or DNS proxy : http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2011/05/12/namecoin-a-dns-alternative-based-on-bitcoin.html
• Tor & .onion hidden services : the following mailing list message contains interesting information on how this might be answered : DNS server, SOCKS proxy, .. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2010/msg00007.html

Also, Is Cygwin required for building only, or would it be required for users too ?

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I still hope there is a simple solution using the stuff in C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc.
Otherwise it is possible to just use KadNode as an additional DNS Server. It will ignore all requests
that do not match *.p2p.

The full Cygwin environment is required for compiling only. The .exe will need to be shipped along with cygwin1.dll though.

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The lastest release contains an unpackaged Windows binary along with a bare setup.

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I have found a script that sets the DNS server. But it does not seem to interact well with the default settings:

:: Set primary and alternate DNS for IPv4 on Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 & Windows XP/Vista/7
@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion

SET adapterName=

FOR /F "tokens=* delims=:" %%a IN ('IPCONFIG ^| FIND /I "ETHERNET ADAPTER"') DO (
SET adapterName=%%a

REM Removes "Ethernet adapter" from the front of the adapter name
SET adapterName=!adapterName:~17!

REM Removes the colon from the end of the adapter name
SET adapterName=!adapterName:~0,-1!

::netsh interface ipv4 set dns name="!adapterName!" static 192.168.0.2 primary
netsh interface ipv4 add dns name="!adapterName!" 127.0.0.1 index=1
netsh interface ipv6 add dns name="!adapterName!" ::1 index=1
)

ipconfig /flushdns

:EOF

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This might be a solution, but I do not know how to intercept requests not only for one application:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/16194/Intercept-and-Rewrite-DNS-Requests-Using-Regular-E

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It's done.

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