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This is part of a domain name registration service that I'm writing with Jeff Lindsay. It's also part of a larger project to make it trivial to work with DNS f

by jf 17y ago

This is part of a domain name registration service that I'm writing with Jeff Lindsay. It's also part of a larger project to make it trivial to work with DNS from "the web". Soon your web server will also be a DNS server.

tav 17y ago
Nice work! It's very useful for app developers on platforms like App Engine which don't provide a server-side DNS API. Is http://dig.jsondns.org http://dig.jsondns.org for demonstration only or can we use that as an official deployment to use in our apps? Thanks!
- jf 17y ago
  Feel free to use http://dig.jsondns.org http://dig.jsondns.org in your applications. I'm glad it's useful! I just can't make any guarantees regarding response time or uptime. If you need guarantees for either of those, you can run the service yourself, the code is on github: http://github.com/jpf/jsondns http://github.com/jpf/jsondns
bretthoerner 17y ago
> Soon your web server will also be a DNS server. Why?
- jf 17y ago
  Setup, configuration, and maintenance of DNS servers isn't simple. They need to run as root on a server with a static IP. Hosted DNS solutions cost money, don't always support all record types, and rarely have programmatic interfaces. In short, it'll make my life easier. Hopefully yours too.
  - sorbits 17y ago
    I would love a simple way to manage my DNS entries, like a version controlled text file :) I presently use a free service (http://gratisdns.dk http://gratisdns.dk) and also run bind9 for one domain (the free service can act as my backup NS) — I looked at http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html in my quest for something simpler, but I wasn’t swayed. Your comment made me optimistic, but correct me if I am wrong, but dig.jsondns.org is completely unrelated to any of this — what I would need is http://github.com/jpf/eventdns http://github.com/jpf/eventdns and dig.jsondns.org is more of a test server for EventDNS if I am not mistaken?
    - jf 17y ago
      So yeah, after I make some changes to eventdns, you'll be able to use that to host DNS from a text file. The path to the files and format will be the same as what dig.jsondns.org returns.
  - est 17y ago
    > Setup, configuration, and maintenance of BIND servers isn't simple. FTFY

by jf 17y ago

tav 17y ago

Nice work! It's very useful for app developers on platforms like App Engine which don't provide a server-side DNS API. Is http://dig.jsondns.org http://dig.jsondns.org for demonstration only or can we use that as an official deployment to use in our apps? Thanks!

jf 17y ago
Feel free to use http://dig.jsondns.org http://dig.jsondns.org in your applications. I'm glad it's useful! I just can't make any guarantees regarding response time or uptime. If you need guarantees for either of those, you can run the service yourself, the code is on github: http://github.com/jpf/jsondns http://github.com/jpf/jsondns

bretthoerner 17y ago

> Soon your web server will also be a DNS server. Why?

jf 17y ago
Setup, configuration, and maintenance of DNS servers isn't simple. They need to run as root on a server with a static IP. Hosted DNS solutions cost money, don't always support all record types, and rarely have programmatic interfaces. In short, it'll make my life easier. Hopefully yours too.
- sorbits 17y ago
  I would love a simple way to manage my DNS entries, like a version controlled text file :) I presently use a free service (http://gratisdns.dk http://gratisdns.dk) and also run bind9 for one domain (the free service can act as my backup NS) — I looked at http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html in my quest for something simpler, but I wasn’t swayed. Your comment made me optimistic, but correct me if I am wrong, but dig.jsondns.org is completely unrelated to any of this — what I would need is http://github.com/jpf/eventdns http://github.com/jpf/eventdns and dig.jsondns.org is more of a test server for EventDNS if I am not mistaken?
  - jf 17y ago
    So yeah, after I make some changes to eventdns, you'll be able to use that to host DNS from a text file. The path to the files and format will be the same as what dig.jsondns.org returns.
- est 17y ago
  > Setup, configuration, and maintenance of BIND servers isn't simple. FTFY