[openstack-dev] [nova][moniker] DNSaaS but DNS Updates not first class interface ?

Michael Still mikal at stillhq.com
Thu May 2 03:42:40 UTC 2013


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Mac Innes, Kiall <kiall at hp.com> wrote:
> On 01/05/13 16:07, Simo Sorce wrote:
>> And I am very surprised to see people here want to actually own the DNS
>> server backend (writing to databases directly and stuff) instead of
>> simply using DNS Updates and letting the deployer choose the DNS server
>> infrastructure it likes best.
>
> RFC2136 DNS Updates don't offer the ability to do things like add/remove
> zones and is not always available. Many providers, like Akamai, UltraDNS
> etc simply don't offer support for RFC2136.

I have a DNS driver implementation that uses RFC2136 for nova DNS
updates. However, we decided to rearrange a lot of that code at the
summit and I now need to rewrite my driver. It will be available
sometime in Havana however.

Michael



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