winrm-dns-client

Introduction

winrm-dns-client is a CLI and Go library for interacting with remote Microsoft DNS servers, it currently utilises WinRM for remote connectivity, in the future when available, I will udpate this to use OpenSSH.

Requirements

In order to use this, the following must be met:

• DNS Server needs to be running on Windows Server 2012, or greater
• PowerShell must have the DnsServer module installed

Limitations

At present this only works with A and CNAME records, this is because of my own requirements for this tool, I will look at adding more functionality as time progresses.

Usage

Configuration settings are found in $HOME/.winrm-dns-client.yaml

servername: <name of dns server>
username: <username to login>
password: <password to login>

There is the concept of IDs which allow for an easier way to keep track of DNS records, this allows for easier tracking of records, when this is used the type is worked out automatically.

<dns zone>|<record name>|<record value>
i.e.
test.local|test|10.0.0.1

To read all records within a zone

winrm-dns-client read -d <domain-name>

To read specific dns record within a zone

winrm-dns-client read -d >domain-name> -n <name>

To create a dns record within a zone

winrm-dns-client create -d <domain-name> -n <name> -t <record-type> -v <value> [-l <ttl>]

To update a dns record within a zone

winrm-dns-client update -i <record ID> [-u <new value>] [-l <ttl>]

Either a new value or ttl must be specified

To delete a DNS record within a zone

winrm-dns-client delete -i <record ID>