Slashdot Mirror
Best DNS Service With API Access?
netaustin writes "My company runs quite a few media websites, mostly on Drupal, and about half on ec2. We have a good server setup with ec2 which allows us to route requests through Pound, a cluster of Varnish servers, then a cluster of Apache servers. We manage 50 domains (one per state) like this. Problem is, anytime things change, we have to manually adjust DNS for all 50 states, which is very boring and usually causes negative side effects too as we can't ever adjust all 50 DNS entries at once. We'd like to just change DNS providers and be done with it, but there are a lot of options, and I don't often shop for DNS services. I use EveryDNS for my personal domains, but I don't think they provide an API and it'd feel a little dishonest to reverse engineer the forms on their site since they're an esteemed donations-based service. I wouldn't feel bad about doing that to DNSPark, but they have a CAPTCHA image accompanying their login form, so goodbye DNSPark. I found a couple services that seem to do what I'm looking for, but they both feel a bit Microsoft-y and since I only want to change once, I want to get this right. Advice?"
would do the world a great favor if their mother had had an abortion. I have a hard time believing in evolution because if there were such a thing, these people should never have survived infancy. There is no better evidence of this than trying to drive on any highway for more than 10 minutes without somebody acting like an inconsiderate reckless asshole despite the fact that he is using a machine that can easily kill himself or others unless it is used properly.
Let me break this down for those of you who need this explained to you. If you tailgate, you're an asshole. If you don't know what the goddamned passing lane is for and you set up a rolling roadblock, either because you're an oblivious moron who should not be driving or because you're such a fucking sheep that you can't even pick a different speed from the guy riding beside you, you're an asshole. If there is no one behind me and you will have the entire road to yourself (both lanes) in about 1-2 seconds and you still pull out in front of me, you're an asshole. If I am in the left lane and no one else is on the road, and you pull out into the left lane after crossing the right lane and force me to hit my brakes instead of just pulling out into the right lane, you're an asshole. In all of the cases mentioned above, the legal penalty should be a slow bloody death televised on national pay-per-view TV. Perhaps disembowelment or the stretch-rack or being drawn and quartered would be appropriate. Hell if this happened, then with all the sheeple gone maybe the people left over would elect leaders who actually don't act like they are deliberately trying to drive the country into the ground.
Copy a 17 Meg file Every day...Like mire of decay, of various BSD Slashdot 'BSD is share, this news documents like a w1ll recall that it beyond the scope of