This is a toolkit for creating, updating and maintaining PowerDNS 3.2+
Launch by: user@host ~$ python local_tool.py /path/to/database.sqlite
The local tool is a small CLI that interacts with the backend.
It consists of a few short "commands" that executes backend functions.
And these are the following commands:
- add [domain|record]
- modify
- replace
With these short commands you'll the the options to add a record or domain,
modify a existing record via name specification or replace old ip's with new ones.
The backend is mainly a wrapper for traditional SQL statements.
This will be a shared module that any script or tool can import
and execute simple tasks on the PowerDNS SQL database structure,
such as:
- Creating a brand new database
- Adding domains
- Adding record
- Modifying records based on type and name
- Renew all IP records with a new IP (
replace(old_ip, new_ip))
More "features" will come, mainly for DNSSEC but for now these are
the tasks that are simplified by having taken the manual tasks and
replaced them with functions within the SQL() class.
The Backend also relies on sql_createdb.py-sqlite for syntax.
Since sqlite3 in Python doesn't handle multiple queries well enough
in one execution the SQL statements are divided by %% between each
statement and within the backend.py it just takes data.split('%%')
and executes one query at a time.