Best Practices/approach for Developing a BIND DNS Server API?
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boyahmed · 2023-12-12 10:46

Managing DNS with BIND due to unavoidable requirements, our dev
environment necessitates a user-friendly method for handling A, AAAA,
and CNAME records. My current strategy involves Zone-Transfer and
Dynamic Updates via TSIG/IP whitelisting, paired with a web app for
displaying records (via zone transfer) and creating them through form
submissions processed as HTTP requests. While functional, one
significant challenge is handling "external" vs. "internal" views in
BIND, where dynamic updates aren't possible for zones defined in both
views. Is there a better strategy, or is my current approach on the
right track? How can we effectively manage internal-only records
alongside our external DNS entries?

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ElevenNotes · 2023-12-12 12:16

By splitting the service into an internal BIND cluster and external
BINF cluster.

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boyahmed · 2023-12-12 13:13

Can you please elaborate more? it's not completely clear to me how
would this work

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ElevenNotes · 2023-12-12 13:15

You run a bunch of BIND containers as internal DNS and another bunch
of BIND containers as external.

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boyahmed · 2023-12-12 13:28

Gotcha! thanks!

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kmisterk · 2023-12-12 16:11

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