PowerDNS integration should rather use the PowerDNS JSON API

[sid3windr]

phpIPAM gained PowerDNS integration recently, which is great!

It does this however by directly connecting to the MySQL database behind PowerDNS.

PowerDNS also sports a JSON-powered API to manage DNS zones and entries.

This API is also available from 3.4 (currently required) although tagged as experimental. It's actually pretty much produciton ready, and will be officially non-experimental in the upcoming PowerDNS 4.0.

Advantages: official way of interacting with records; supports servers with DNSSEC enabled; automatically updates serial for you if desired; supports -any- supported PowerDNS backend that has API support (ie PostgreSQL, MS SQL, LDAP, ...) and not only MySQL with 1 specific schema.

It might be nice to convert current support, although this might be a lot more work than typing out this report, which I of course understand. :)

[phpipam]

Hi, yes, you are right. For 1.3 I will prepare a wrapper that will allow also other DNS plugins to be executed (e.g. other APIs).

For 1.2 it will stay as it is.

[sid3windr]

Great, thanks! In all likelyness it will work as it is for many people.