[Pdns-users] Disabling / Locking domains for a certain time

[Gareth Campling]

We have a way of doing it, but it's a hack and saw method, as we manage the dns via our intranet just have a button that inserts XXX
into the SOA / NS records and any A or CNAME records so nothing resolves correctly.

There are cleaner ways no doubt but it works.

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Gareth Campling
Network Operations
Griffin Internet

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-----Original Message-----
From: pdns-users-bounces at mailman.powerdns.com [mailto:pdns-users-bounces at mailman.powerdns.com] On Behalf Of Tobias Orlamuende
Sent: 22 April 2005 09:08
To: pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com
Subject: [Pdns-users] Disabling / Locking domains for a certain time

Hi folks,

we are thinking about using PDNS as replacement for our Bind-servers.
Due to the fact, that we are an ISP and have lots of customers, sometimes it will be needed to lock a domain on DNS-level if a customer doesn't pay his invoice.
Until now, we did just a quick renaming of Bind's .dns-file to .dnsx.
Is there any possibility and if yes, which one(s), to do this with PDNS using the gmysql-backend?
IMHO a second table like "domains_locked" where the record of the affected domain from table "domains" would be moved should do it, but due to the fact that field "id" on table "domains" has auto_increment, it would give problems if the record moved to the other table, is the last one and a new record is inserted in the meantime. Ok, it seems to be a very seldom scenario, but with a big amount of domains to manage, it could be possible.

How do other ISPs solve this with PDNS?

If somebody made a change like this and maybe has it implemented to powerdnsadmin, I'd be very hapy to hear how it works and get a diff or patch.
Currently it seems to me, that powerdnsadmin is the only "well-known" tool, which has ongoing development. Am I right with this?

TIA for all answers.

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Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Kind regards

Tobias Orlamünde
Technischer Leiter
eyes4media GmbH
Gaiserwaldstrasse 16a
CH-9015 St. Gallen
fon +41-71-3141010
fax +41-71-3141019

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