Difference between revisions of "PowerDNS Admin Web Frontend"

Revision as of 15:51, 20 December 2007

Also, there are a few existing web-based tools for administrating PowerDNS installations, none of them seem to be good enough for daily work, especially where access for end-users is required. This page should be a starting point to collect requirements from users to describe the needed features for a PowerDNS administration web frontend.

• Should be able to work with SQL, LDAP and file based backends
• SQL backend should handle all supported databases
• Check all existing record types for correctness

 * Disallow duplicates
 * Disallow CNAME and other RR

• Support multiple site owners which can change their own records
• Completely skinable templates for different CIs
• Use PHP > 5.1
• CSS 2.1 validation
• Optional AJAX to make it "look good"
• Nice design
• Must allow working with lynx/w3m on text consoles (e.g. W3C WAI-CSS-stylesheet)
• XHTML-1.0-strict validation
• Allow "paging" through database when it contains many thousands of zones/records
• User-management should be "under" web server (i.e. use Apache authentication methods)
• Object-oriented programming
• Model-View-Controller architecture
• Dialogs for complex records creating IANA specs/RFC based syntax (e.g. user selects NAPTR-RR and gets a drop-down box with the list of IANA protocols and a text field for the URI. The dialog function then creates the complex syntax of the NAPTR-RR).

• Record types:

 * A
 * AAAA
 * MX
 * NS
 * PTR
 * TXT
 * HINFO
 * SRV

• DynamicDNS interface (HTTP-based like dyndns.com)

Please add your own suggestions to this list or add your comment to the discussion page if you are unsure.