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From: "Jon Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 9:06 PM
> It's not really that hard to figure out the sturcture of the dns record
> files. Just open one up and the write a program that will write the same
> file with the right names in the right places. We wrote a program that
> writes the dns files for Microsoft DNS server...
The structure of a DNS zone file and records contained therein are as basic as
it gets - just lines of text.
But I am mindful of Howies achievements with the inFusion mailserver (iMS) - the
combination of a custom built services referencing CF templates and/or databases
is mighty powerful and flexible.
I can give a good example - there are many, many domain registrars and agents
out there who give you administrative control over DNS, but not technical
control - that is to say - they don't have any way of allowing you to add even
simple DNS records such as MX records, A records, CNames etc... It is a big
problem - some hosting companies charge $25 to add or modify a DNS record
manually to an existing domain hosted by them. It would be great to have a
totally CF based domain registration and management system, which allowed users
to register a domain with a credit card, and to subsequently login and manage it
online themselves - BIG potential right there. I am sure there are lots of other
things that can be done up to and including a fully ICANN approved domain
registration system.
You could even keep zones and records as columns and rows in SQL server - great
for administration, management, backups etc.. Providing the custom DNS service
talks to UDP/TCP port 53 at the front end, it can get the backend zone data from
anywhere.
Adrian Cooper.
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