Features

Milestone Features

There’s a lot of extra features, some small, some large, to add to Synclias. Here are some thoughts on them:

API Exposure

There is an internal API that the website etc uses, but it’s not self documenting/accessible at this time. A newer, swagger documented API is already partially complete but disabled.

Envar Loading of Tokens/Keys

Given it’s Docker, loading any of the tokens/keys should ideally be by Envar. Migration shouldn’t be overly difficult, but the app was built one way, I just need to make sure they’re available in the right places

Cycling Encryption Keys

Any token/api keys are encrypted in the database, however there’s no real way to rotate the keys. Just need to develop a method to read in new keys and rotate without risk

Logging Improvements

Currently, all logging is console only on the background worker and app. This functions fine for reviewing an individual sync, All of the components are in there for centralising for human review on the site, but at this time, other things have been higher priority

Improved IPv6 Support

IPv6 works, and seems fine, but I can already see people having problems with IPv6 connections only configuring IPv4 and telling me it doesn’t work. Not sure how to deal with that really, detecting that IPv6 is there is easy. I’ve got some docs to read about tunnelling.

Also, having support to recognise when something’s supplying IPs from a dedicated pool. Facebook like to put “f4c3b00” in their IPv6 addresses, and I’ve seen it in other places too, spotting these (without a preconfigured list) shouldn’t be too difficult, and then we just add anything with that tag into the VPN. It’s just an extra wrapper on the IPv6 part, but takes time to not screw up and overly force an entire datacenter through the VPN.

DNS Record Tracking

The only major thing really that breaks Synclias is CDNs with rotating IPs. It’s a good setup and if I was hosting it’s an option I’d consider. Whilst Synclias does pull as many IPs as possible during a scan, keeping historical data on these would be beneficial. Also, would potentially be a side benefit of improved logging.

Need an option to track the IPs, decide on a retention period, actually doing the code should be easy

GUI Improvements

Bulk Site Imports

Already have a bulk importer in there, just need to expose it

List sorting

Shouldn’t be too difficult, just need to add a parameter to allow the GET to control the DB query

Websockets

Yeah, I know