DNS Manager
A web application to manage your DNS zones via dynamic DNS.
Managing DNS zones is a pest. Editing zone files by hand is the standard method, but can be pretty risky -- one syntax error that goes unchecked and you're toast. Furthermore, throwing zone files at your non-technical customers is a recipe for disaster.
DNS Manager gives you a simplified web interface, provided as a Rails application, that allows less technical users to modify records. Some of it's features include:
- Uses zone transfers and dynamic DNS queries to perform the modifications, so it is safe against multiple users simultaneously editing the same domain.
- The web browser interface is more accessable and easier for non-technical users to use than editing a zone file.
- To secure the dynamic updates, the application can use TSEC keys to authenticate itself to the DNS server.
- A web services interface to allow programmatic use of the application, so anyone can provide DynDNS-like services for their domain(s). (planned)
At present, the interface is fairly ugly and still requires significant technical knowledge to operate, but it is going to improve.
Vital Statistics
- Licence: GPLv2
- Report Bugs to: theshed+dnsmanager@hezmatt.org
- Source Repository: darcs http://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/darcs/dnsmanager.trunk