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NEW PROVIDER: HETZNER DNS Console (#904)
* HETZNER: implement the provider for Hetzner DNS Console

Signed-off-by: Jakob Ackermann <das7pad@outlook.com>

* HETZNER: apply review feedback

- add domain into error messages
- insert sub-strings using `%q`
- insert sub-errors using `%w`
- change api.getZone() signature to return a (potentially `nil`) Zone
   pointer instead of a (potentially empty) Zone value
- sort imports and confirm with `$ goimports -w providers/hetzner/`
- use exact 'api_key' term in error message of settings validation
- add blank line for logic separation
- drop internal record id from correction messages

Co-Authored-By: Tom Limoncelli <tlimoncelli@stackoverflow.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakob Ackermann <das7pad@outlook.com>

* HETZNER: add request rate-limiting handling

There are a limited number of data-points on how their rate-limiting
 works at this time. I deduce from my account to others and use a fixed/
 constant backoff of 1s as the initial delay. Thereafter exponential
 increase with factor 2 (not needed at this time).
Hetzner has not made any official statements on rate-limiting, so this
 is guesswork only.

Signed-off-by: Jakob Ackermann <das7pad@outlook.com>

* HETZNER: address golint complaints

- baseUrl -> baseURL
- mark Record as private -> record
- mark Zone as private -> zone
- mark RequestRateLimiter as private -> requestRateLimiter
- capitalize Id fields as ID
- keep delay logic on same level, move return out of branch

Signed-off-by: Jakob Ackermann <das7pad@outlook.com>

* HETZNER: rate_limited: init the response timestamp on requestRateLimiter

Signed-off-by: Jakob Ackermann <das7pad@outlook.com>

* HETZNER: requestRateLimiter: align local variable with struct name

Signed-off-by: Jakob Ackermann <das7pad@outlook.com>

Co-authored-by: Tom Limoncelli <tlimoncelli@stackoverflow.com>
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DNSControl

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DNSControl is a system for maintaining DNS zones. It has two parts: a domain specific language (DSL) for describing DNS zones plus software that processes the DSL and pushes the resulting zones to DNS providers such as Route53, Cloudflare, and Gandi. It can send the same DNS records to multiple providers. It even generates the most beautiful BIND zone files ever. It runs anywhere Go runs (Linux, macOS, Windows). The provider model is extensible, so more providers can be added.

Currently supported DNS providers:

  • AWS Route 53
  • AXFR+DDNS
  • Active Directory
  • Azure DNS
  • BIND
  • ClouDNS
  • Cloudflare
  • DNSOVERHTTPS
  • DNSimple
  • DigitalOcean
  • Exoscale
  • Gandi
  • Google DNS
  • Hetzner
  • HEXONET
  • Hurricane Electric DNS
  • INWX
  • Internet.bs
  • Linode
  • NS1
  • Name.com
  • Namecheap
  • OVH
  • OctoDNS
  • OpenSRS
  • PowerDNS
  • SoftLayer
  • Vultr
  • deSEC

At Stack Overflow, we use this system to manage hundreds of domains and subdomains across multiple registrars and DNS providers.

You can think of it as a DNS compiler. The configuration files are written in a DSL that looks a lot like JavaScript. It is compiled to an intermediate representation (IR). Compiler back-ends use the IR to update your DNS zones on services such as Route53, Cloudflare, and Gandi, or systems such as BIND and Active Directory.

An Example

dnsconfig.js:

// define our registrar and providers
var namecom = NewRegistrar("name.com", "NAMEDOTCOM");
var r53 = NewDnsProvider("r53", "ROUTE53")

D("example.com", namecom, DnsProvider(r53),
  A("@", "1.2.3.4"),
  CNAME("www","@"),
  MX("@",5,"mail.myserver.com."),
  A("test", "5.6.7.8")
)

Running dnscontrol preview will talk to the providers (here name.com as registrar and route 53 as the dns host), and determine what changes need to be made.

Running dnscontrol push will make those changes with the provider and my dns records will be correctly updated.

See Getting Started page on documentation site.

Benefits

  • Less error-prone than editing a BIND zone file.
  • More reproducible than clicking buttons on a web portal.
  • Easily switch between DNS providers: The DNSControl language is vendor-agnostic. If you use it to maintain your DNS zone records, you can switch between DNS providers easily. In fact, DNSControl will upload your DNS records to multiple providers, which means you can test one while switching to another. We've switched providers 3 times in three years and we've never lost a DNS record.
  • Adopt CI/CD principles to DNS! At StackOverflow we maintain our DNSControl configurations in Git and use our CI system to roll out changes. Keeping DNS information in a VCS means we have full history. Using CI enables us to include unit-tests and system-tests. Remember when you forgot to include a "." at the end of an MX record? We haven't had that problem since we included a test to make sure Tom doesn't make that mistake... again.
  • Adopt PR-based updates. Allow developers to send updates as PRs, which you can review before you approve.
  • Variables save time! Assign an IP address to a constant and use the variable name throughout the file. Need to change the IP address globally? Just change the variable and "recompile."
  • Macros! Define your SPF records, MX records, or other repeated data once and re-use them for all domains.
  • Control Cloudflare from a single source of truth. Enable/disable Cloudflare proxying (the "orange cloud" button) directly from your DNSControl files.
  • Keep similar domains in sync with transforms and other features. If one domain is supposed to be a filtered version of another, this is easy to set up.
  • It is extendable! All the DNS providers are written as plugins. Writing new plugins is very easy.

Installation

From source

DNSControl can be built with Go version 1.14 or higher.

To install, simply run

GO111MODULE=on go get github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol/v3

To download the source

git clone github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol

If these don't work, more info is in #805.


Via packages

Get prebuilt binaries from github releases

Alternatively, on Mac you can install it using homebrew:

brew install dnscontrol

Via docker

docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd)/dnsconfig.js:/dns/dnsconfig.js -v $(pwd)/creds.json:/dns/creds.json stackexchange/dnscontrol dnscontrol preview

More info at our web site

https://stackexchange.github.io/dnscontrol/