Filter DNSsync entries for each view

[alehaa]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Right now, IPAM DNSsync automatically creates a DNS record for all "zones with matching names in the DNS views linked to the IP address' prefix". However, sometimes not all DNS names should be published into each zone, i.e. when a service is just internal but uses the same domain as public services. It would be nice to optionally filter which records will be populated in a zone.

Describe the solution you'd like An optional filter could be added to each view. The IP-Address object would be passed to the filter. If the filter doesn't match, creating the record is skipped. NetBox already includes similar functionality e.g. for permissions or custom links.

Users then could either leave this field empty (all records will be published to all matching zones of the view). Otherwise the filter could check on IPAddress fields, custom fields or even related values like the device / vm it's attached to.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Filtering a common zone on export doesn't allow adding records explicitly for the external zones. This might be required e.g. for adding validation TXT records.
• Adding manual records is an option, but not as cool as doing it automatically. ;)

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[peteeckel]

Hi @alehaa, thanks for this feature suggestion - I'll think about how to best implement it. The use cases are clear and it certainly makes sense to define a mechanism that makes it possible to filter IP addresses per view that should will result in address records.

Originally I had the idea to provide some means of defining a list of views to exclude per IP address, but found it clumsy and postponed it. But your idea definitely has more charm and could be easier to implement as well.