[Question] Support for custom ENS Registry?

[DefiCake]

Hi,

I am browsing the documentation, but I cannot see any way to customize the ENS Registry address - for a deployment in a private chain. Is this feature supported?

[ricmoo]

Oh, it is not mentioned in the docs, but I should certainly include instructions on how to override it.

When specifying the network to the provider, you can use { name: “custom”, chainId: chainId, ensAddress: yourAddressHere } in the network parameter.

The other option (I need to post the script for this) is to replay ENS contract deployment on your testnet. They were deployed using intentionally replayable transactions so that ENS can be deployed to any network at the same address, inclduing Dev nets. You just need to prefund the ecrecover address of the transaction. I’ll include scripts, as it’s easier to see The code than to describe. :)

[DefiCake]

Thanks, I will try that :)

I also prepared some scripts to deploy the same ENS registry and replay the txs, but I got stuck at registering my domains to the public registry, as the owner of the 0x0 and .eth nodes were set to some other addresses. I did not find the exact way to use them outside of the GUI they prepared for the public testnets and I did not want to study all the source code, so I gave up that and ended up deploying a custom registry since I am in a hurry ^^U but a deep thank you for suggesting it and congrats for the writing! We need more of those :)

[ricmoo]

I've tried a quick go at getting ENS set up on a dev network and it is indeed much more complex than I expected.

I'll get instructions together someday, but have updated the docs to include info on a custom ensAddress, so I'll close this issue now. Feel free to keep discussions going though if you find out something interesting. :)

Thanks! :)