dnsme

dnsme

This is a command line tool that can be used to manage DNS information hosted at DNS Made Easy (http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com) using their REST API.

Installation

Statically-linked binaries are available for download at https://github.com/jswank/dnsme/releases

The tool is written in Go (http://golang.org). To compile, the Go tool chain must be installed- see http://golang.org/doc/install for installation instructions, and http://golang.org/doc/articles/go_command.html for info on the go command.

Once the go tool chain is installed and environment configured, compilation steps are:

$ go get github.com/jswank/dnsme
$ go install github.com/jswank/dnsme

This will install the dnsme command as $GOPATH/bin/dnsme

Usage

$ export DNSME_API_URL=http://api.dnsmadeeasy.com/V1.2
$ export DNSME_API_KEY=8j7dn64b-83jc-48jd-0913-98wrhjd601df
$ export DNSME_SECRET_KEY=93jsmq86-11hs-00ls-tnd8-8djdnb98a74c
$ dnsme --help

usage: dnsme command [arguments]

'dnsme' is a command-line interface to the DNS Made Easy REST API.
In order to use it, an API key pair must be configured for your account:
this can be trivially created by visiting your account information page
at https://cp.dnsmadeeasy.com/account/info.

The following environment variables should be set:

	DNSME_API_URL = http://api.dnsmadeeasy.com/V1.2
	DNSME_API_KEY = API key
	DNSME_SECRET_KEY = Secret key

Available commands are:

	domains          lists all domains
	domain           returns information about a domain
	add-domain       adds a domains
	delete-domain    deletes a domain
	secondaries      lists all secondary domains
	secondary        returns information about a secondary domain
	add-secondary    adds a secondary domains
	delete-secondary deletes a secondary domain
	records          return records in a domain
	record           returns a specific record id from a domain
	add-record       add a new record
	update-record    update an existing record
	delete-record    delete a record from the domain
	import           import domain info & records from JSON
	export           export domain info & records into JSON 

Use "dnsme help [command]" for more information about a command.

Global flags:

The -d flag can be used to print raw HTTP requests and responses to
stderr.

The flag "-o" specifies the output type.  Available output types are
"csv", "json", or the default text-based "std".

Examples

List primary domains

$ ./dnsme domains
example.com
example.org

List secondary domains

$ ./dnsme secondaries
example.net

Show all records in a zone

$ ./dnsme records example.com

@     1800   A     92.250.168.100                  ; id=7693172, gtd=DEFAULT
dev   1800   A     92.250.168.91                   ; id=7700700, gtd=DEFAULT
dev2  1800   A     98.74.181.1                     ; id=7700747, gtd=DEFAULT
www   1800   CNAME example.com.                    ; id=7693173, gtd=DEFAULT
m     1800   CNAME example.com.                    ; id=7786353, gtd=DEFAULT
admin 1800   CNAME example.com.                    ; id=7786354, gtd=DEFAULT
@     1800   MX    10 mailstore1.secureserver.net. ; id=7693175, gtd=DEFAULT
@     1800   MX    0 smtp.secureserver.net.        ; id=7693176, gtd=DEFAULT

Update a record

$ ./dnsme record -id 7693175 -o json example.com
{"name":"","id":7693175,"type":"MX","data":"10 mailstore1.secureserver.net.",
"gtdLocation":"DEFAULT","ttl":1800,"password":""}

Todo

• Support for HTTP-RED records
• Smarter domain import