RS DNS Tools

Rackspace provides a distributed DNS service with a REST API for accessing and modifying zone information. RS DNS Tools is a simple set of utility scripts for manipulating a Rackspace-managed DNS zone. At this point, these scripts were developed solely to make it easier for me to automate some tasks, but they may be useful to others. Have at it. Contributions including code, bug reports, and feedback are all welcome.

• Contributors: Matthew Jones
• Bug reports: http://github.com/mbjones/rsdns/issues

There are two main types of tools in this package:

• rsdns.py: a Python commandline tool that allows you to list domains, list records in a domain, create a record in a domain, update a record in a domain, delete a record from a domain, import a domain from a BIND9 file, and to delete a whole domain
• bash scripts: a set of Bash scripts that let you call the Rackspace API directly to authenticate (auth.sh), export a domain (export.sh), and show records for a domain (records.sh). These are not as useful as the python commandline tool, but are included due to the export feature.

Installation

For rsdns.py, you must first install python_clouddns using a command such as:

sudo pip install python_clouddns

The argparse module ships with Python 2.7 and should be standard.

Usage Examples

./rsdns.py import --file zone/db.example.org
./rsdns.py list
./rsdns.py records example.org
./rsdns.py create example.org test.magisa.org. 10.0.50.100 A
./rsdns.py update example.org test.example.org 10.0.50.200
./rsdns.py delete example.org test.example.org
./rsdns.py deldomain example.org

License

Copyright [2013] [Matthew B. Jones]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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