INTRODUCTION

route53d is a DNS frontend to the Amazon Route 53 API. It allows you to use standard DNS tools to make changes to your Route 53 zones. At the moment it supports adding and deleting resource records by dynamic update (e.g with nsupdate).

Support for slaving from your master DNS server by incremental zone transfer (IXFR) and pushing zones changes to the API is nearly complete.

REQUIREMENTS

• Python http://www.python.org/
• boto https://github.com/boto/boto Route 53 support isn't yet in a Boto release. Take a source snapshot from Github.
• dnspython http://www.dnspython.org/
• An active Amazon Route53 account http://aws.amazon.com/route53/
• AWS access keys http://aws.amazon.com/iam/faqs/ http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/12/dns30-a-visual-tool-for-amazon-route-53.html

INSTALLATION

1. Install Python, dnspython and Boto according to their documentation. This may help: http://aws.amazon.com/articles/3998
2. route53d uses Boto to call the Route53 API. Configure Boto with your AWS access key: http://code.google.com/p/boto/wiki/BotoConfig
3. Create a config file. Use route53d.ini.sample as the starting point.
4. Start the daemon: route53d.py [--config /path/to/route53d.ini]

LIMITATIONS

• Resource-record deletion The DNS dynamic update mechanism allows deletion of 1) a specific resource-record, 2) a resource-record set, or 3) deletion of all records belonging to a name. The Route 53 API implements only specific resource-record deletion so route53d will reject requests for the other deletion types.

BUGS!

Definitely. Email me with bug reports, debug logs, and patches: james@now.ie

FUTURE WORK

See http://code.google.com/p/route53d/wiki/TODO

LICENSE

This software is released under a 3-clause BSD licence. The licence text is in the script.

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