[TriLUG] Need secondary DNS provider

magnus magnus at trilug.org
Thu Feb 18 12:42:24 EST 2010


Alan Porter wrote:
> I am sure that it would not be too hard to provide DNS service
> on the TriLUG machines.

Yet another volunteer role.

> However, what WOULD be hard is the user interface where we allow
> our members to make changes to their DNS records.  We probably
> don't want to go passing the root passwords around.  So we'd need
> a secure way for folks to make their own DNS changes, and to
> securely consolidate them together into a single BIND/whatever
> config.

It's already built into BIND using secure keys for each zone. Command 
line tools like nsupdate can be used to update zones.

Sounds like a cool idea but maybe outside of the TriLUG umbrella.



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