PowerDNS Admin Web Frontend

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.

General:

• Web-based interface
• Should be able to work with SQL and LDAP based backends
• SQL backend should handle all supported databases
• DynamicDNS interface (HTTP-based like dyndns.com)

Authentication/Authorization:

• Support multiple site owners which can change their own records
• User-management should be "under" web server (i.e. use Apache authentication methods)
• Support different authentication and access control sources (database, LDAP, HTTP Auth, etc)

DNS records:

• Support creation of all record types
• 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).
• Check all existing record types for correctness
  • Disallow duplicates
  • Disallow CNAME and other RR

Usability:

• Allow "paging" through database when it contains many thousands of zones/records

Templates:

• Completely skinable templates for different CIs
• Nice design

Techniques:

• Object-oriented programming
• Model-View-Controller architecture
• Optional AJAX to make it "look good"
• Use PHP > 5.1

Standards:

• XHTML-1.1-strict validation
• CSS 2.1 validation
• Must allow working with lynx/w3m on text consoles (e.g. W3C WAI-CSS-stylesheet)

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