Hi,

I'm currently running pdns 4.1.1 authorative server (from Ubuntu 18.04 repositories) in master/slave mode, and manage my zones via BIND backend (using our own DSL, dnsgit [1]).

To ease future TLS deployments, I'd like to use something like lego [2] to get certificates from Let's Encrypt using the dns-01 challenge [3]; which requires me to enable the web/api server. Issue #2400 [4] suggests that I'd also need a non-BIND backend.

My primary questions now are:

1. How do I restrict API access to only add/remove TXT records for
   _acme-challenge labels? The docs mention an ACL ("the default ACL
   before 4.1.0 allows access from everywhere" [5]), but it seems to
   only be cabable of whitelisting CIDR lists for incoming requests
   ("webserver-allow-from").

2. Given I set "launch=bind,gsqlite3", how does PDNS handle updates? I'd
   like to see API patches going only to the SQLite DB, and leave the
   BIND zone files untouched. Is that doable?

A collegue of mine suggested delegating _acme-challenge subdomains to a dedicated DNS server, like acme-dns [6], but that still requires a bunch of CNAME records for some (most?) of our A/AAAA records (plus a separate server/IP just for ACME challenges)...

I'd be grateful for any input.

Kind Regards,
Dominik Menke


[1]: https://github.com/digineo/dnsgit
[2]: https://go-acme.github.io/lego/dns/pdns/
[3]: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/challenge-types/#dns-01-challenge
[4]: https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/http-api/index.html#webserver
[5]: https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/issues/2400
[6]: https://github.com/joohoi/acme-dns
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