DNS + Web Interface

[Jeff Lasman]

On Saturday 21 February 2004 10:50 pm, John Callery wrote:

> I am planning to help design a primary/secondary DNS system similar
> to that of EasyDNS (www.easydns.com); where the client can use the
> services as their DNS hosting.

We're doing similarly John; perhaps we should discuss this offlist.

> We will be building the system with PHP, and I was wondering if
> someone could tell me how I can learn about how what the application
> will need to work with (for example, will the PHP application need to
> edit certain BIND records)...?

May I strongly suggest the latest edition of the "DNS and Bind" O'Reilly 
book?  It's a good reference and has lots of helpful examples as well.

One thing though: all the examples I've seen for the bind.conf file show 
multi-line records.  While multi-line records are easier for us humans 
to parse, it's perfectly acceptable to use single-line records, and it 
makes software parsing a lot easier.

Jeff
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