Bindistrar for ops345.ca

What is this?

When you need to allow a bunch of people (e.g. students in your courses) to control the DNS records for a publicly-accessible domain: Bindinstrar will make it possible for you.

As an administrator (typically a professor) you can:

• Create sections for groups of users.
• Add any nubmber of users to each group.
• The users will have passwords automatically generated and emailed to them.

As a user (typically a student) you can:

• Create A, MX, TXT, and CNAME records for your subdomain.
• Delete those records.
• When a valid record is added or removed, the Bind server authoritative for the domain will restart immediately.

All this for free! Well, it's free for you. I have to run a 24x7 server on a static IP address, register the main domain, and set my server up to be authoritative for it.

It's not easy, but you're welcome to set up your own Bindistrar. You can have it under a GPL licence. I do request that you let me know if you use it and where, so I don't feel so bad spending weeks of my time developing this software. The code is available in SVN:

svn checkout svn://littlesvr.ca/prog/bindistrar

Questions, comments, bug reports, and patches are welcome! Please Contact me Thanks.

Thanks to BuddyNS for providing secondary DNS service without charging me for it.