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Comments: 2 +-   Best DNS service with API access? on Wednesday September 24 2008, @04:39PM netaustin

Submitted by netaustin on Wednesday September 24 2008, @04:39PM
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netaustin writes "My company runs quite a few media websites, mostly on Drupal, and about half on ec2. We have a good server setup with ec2 which allows us to route requests through Pound, a cluster of Varnish servers, then a cluster of Apache servers. We manage 50 domains (one per state) like this. Problem is, anytime things change, we have to manually adjust DNS for all 50 states, which is very boring and usually causes negative side effects too as we can't ever adjust all 50 DNS entries at once. We'd like to just change DNS providers and be done with it, but there are a lot of options, and I don't often shop for DNS services.

I use EveryDNS for my personal domains, but I don't think they provide an API and it'd feel a little dishonest to reverse engineer the forms on their site since they're an esteemed donations-based service. I wouldn't feel bad about doing that to DNSPark, but they have a CAPTCHA image accompanying their login form, so goodbye DNSPark.

I found a couple services that seem to do what I'm looking for, but they both feel a bit Microsoft-y and since I only want to change once, I want to get this right. Advice?"
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  • API! (Score:3, Interesting)

    by davidu (18) on Wednesday September 24 2008, @06:47PM (#25145093) Homepage Journal
    We're working on providing a FULL API to EveryDNS. Slowly, but surely. I've got new folks on board taking over the site to make it finally be the awesome beast it should be. And it'll still be free.

    • Re: (Score:3, Interesting)

      by davidu (18)
      Forgot to add, I'm trying to figure out a way to tie this into Pingdom's API since a lot of people already use that for monitoring. :-)
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