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DNSControl is a system for maintaining DNS zones. It has two parts: a domain specific language (DSL) for describing DNS zones plus software that processes the DSL and pushes the resulting zones to DNS providers such as Route53, Cloudflare, and Gandi. It can send the same DNS records to multiple providers. It even generates the most beautiful BIND zone files ever. It runs anywhere Go runs (Linux, macOS, Windows). The provider model is extensible, so more providers can be added.

Currently supported DNS providers:

Currently supported Domain Registrars:

At Stack Overflow, we use this system to manage hundreds of domains and subdomains across multiple registrars and DNS providers.

You can think of it as a DNS compiler. The configuration files are written in a DSL that looks a lot like JavaScript. It is compiled to an intermediate representation (IR). Compiler back-ends use the IR to update your DNS zones on services such as Route53, Cloudflare, and Gandi, or systems such as BIND.

An Example

dnsconfig.js:

// define our registrar and providers
var REG_NAMECOM = NewRegistrar("name.com");
var r53 = NewDnsProvider("r53")

D("example.com", REG_NAMECOM, DnsProvider(r53),
  A("@", "1.2.3.4"),
  CNAME("www","@"),
  MX("@",5,"mail.myserver.com."),
  A("test", "5.6.7.8")
)

Running dnscontrol preview will talk to the providers (here name.com as registrar and route 53 as the dns host), and determine what changes need to be made.

Running dnscontrol push will make those changes with the provider and my dns records will be correctly updated.

The easiest way to run DNSControl is to use the Docker container:

docker run --rm -it -v "$(pwd):/dns"  ghcr.io/stackexchange/dnscontrol preview

See Getting Started page on documentation site to get started!

Benefits

Installation

DNSControl can be installed via packages for macOS, Linux and Windows, or from source code. See the official instructions.

Via GitHub Actions (GHA)

See dnscontrol-action or gacts/install-dnscontrol.

Deprecation warnings (updated 2024-03-25)

More info at our website

The website: https://docs.dnscontrol.org/

The getting started guide: https://docs.dnscontrol.org/getting-started/getting-started

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