[Pdns-users] Web API for dns-01 challenge (_acme-challenge subdomains)

Bjoern Franke bjo at nord-west.org
Wed Jul 31 09:52:41 UTC 2019


Hi,

> 
> 2. Given I set "launch=bind,gsqlite3", how does PDNS handle updates? I'd
>     like to see API patches going only to the SQLite DB, and leave the
>     BIND zone files untouched. Is that doable?
> 
> A collegue of mine suggested delegating _acme-challenge subdomains to a 
> dedicated DNS server, like acme-dns [6], but that still requires a bunch 
> of CNAME records for some (most?) of our A/AAAA records (plus a separate 
> server/IP just for ACME challenges)...



I'm thinking about a similar setup, running both zones with different
backends via the same server would not be possible?

For instance:

- domain.tld via bind, including _acme-challenge records set to
acme.domain.tld

- acme.domain.tld via MySQL

Rest Regards
Bjoern


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