Dean Mumby wrote:
Hi
I was wondering if anyone else could see the benefit of being able to
activate and de-activate specific DNS records. Similar to the activate
and de-activate domain feature except for a specific record. Obviously
all records would be activated by default.
I will explain my reason. I have just written a few PHP pages to
function as a dynamic DNS service. (You will probably ask why when there
are so many free ones , well quite simply because overseas access is not
always reliable enough in South Africa) What I started thinking was now
I could use this service for mail spooling , but straight away I
realized that it would not be reliable since the records would be
incorrect if the client machine was off-line. What I came up with was if
I removed the record if it had not been updated for X minutes then I
would never hand out incorrect DNS records. But rather than deleting and
re-creating records I would prefer to just run an
activation/de-activation routine . Then all I would need is a cron job
looking at all my dynamic DNS entries and de-activating ones that are
more than X minutes old leaving the static records in place and mail
backing up on secondary MX server.
I know this is long winded , but I figured if I spelled it out clearly
enough someone else might also think it wasn't such a bad idea.
This should be relatively easy to do, but will require an edit to the
records table. Adding an enum column called "active", with the options
of "yes" and "no", defaulting to "yes", should do the trick.
Regards,
Bill
