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:
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Uses zone transfers and dynamic DNS queries to perform the modifications, so it is safe against multiple users simultaneously editing the same domain.
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The web browser interface is more accessable and easier for non-technical users to use than editing a zone file.
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To secure the dynamic updates, the application can use TSEC keys to authenticate itself to the DNS server.
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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
- Send Bugs/Patches/Questions To: theshed+dnsmanager@hezmatt.org
- Source Code: Available on Github