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- This is FANTASTIC! I laughed so hard I nearly fell out of my chair.
Have you seen DNSControl?
If you want a serious alternative to the Route53 API, there's an open source project called https://dnscontrol.org/ DNSControl. It's like Terraform for DNS but it doesn't suck like Terraform.
Version v5.0 just shipped. It's a major rewrite that makes it much more extensible.
https://github.com/DNSControl/dnscontrol/releases/tag/v5.0.0
by YesThatTom2 - I'll recommend dnscontrol as well, although the post is an unseasonal April fools joke, so helpful suggestions may be out of place.
The is-a.dev project uses dnscontrol to manage a subdomain registration service in GitHub, which is really clever. See https://github.com/is-a-dev/register
by 8organicbits - Am I the only one who thinks that read() and write () (block based api) would be a poorer experience for managing key/value dns records?by tonymet
- Apparently soby tonymet
- Fun! Reminds me of https://github.com/nathanvy/dnsbbsby stackghost
- Are there that many people managing their dns by hand that they need this? Outside of various txt records, most of my domains are mapped to specific resources via automation.by ChiperSoft
- Last job, we did for various control/audit reasons BUT it was all IaC and tickets.by stackskipton
- > Are there that many people managing their dns by hand that they need this?
How many thousands or millions of employees does your org have? And how many projects deployed over the decades?
by esseph - I don't think this is there to satisfy "need".
But "automation" with this could legitimately (well, mostly) be based on a git repo with an s3files mount inside it. And a cron job, if you really want to get fancy.
by regularfry - This is... well it's mostly a joke. It's funny but you can indeed use and interact with DNS as a file store or have a file system based control over records.
Both DNS and S3 or any filesystem really... they're just key/value stores.
DNS also has considerably higher reliability and compatibility than almost anything else
- There are apparently many people managing their S3 Objects by hand but long to have them in a file system, yes.by cperciva
- Good job, Colin.
I see you are following the Dyna53 [1] steps ;) What a school of thought you have sparked, Corey!
[1]: https://dyna53.io/
by ahachete - > If the same record is changed in the file system and in Route 53 at the same time, we aim for last-write-wins. This is not strictly possible, since Route 53 does not expose modification timestamps on records
Except route 53 provides a fully ACID transactional API you can build your own locks with!
by cherioo - Route53 makes a great, simple, HA key-value store for some use cases. I've used it in GitHub Actions when nothing else was easily available to store values and put a little post together explaining how a while back. For many things, there isn't a reason for more complexity.
https://doug.sh/posts/route53-as-a-key-value-store-2026-edit...
- neat, thanksby fr2029
- And artifactory makes a good message board for your slightly-more-rambunctious-than-intended AI agents to collaborate and commiserate.by semiquaver
- And route53 makes DNSSEC very easy to enable so all the DNS data is cryptographic signed. This makes putting public keys and certificates in DNS much more sensible.by UltraSane
- At first I thought this was a general purpose file system over R53, ala Corey Quinn. But my, what a gorgeously terrible idea. Well done.by mlhpdx
- to be fair, it's also that just with some severe restrictions on filenames
- You might note who the customer quote is from.by QuinnyPig
- A “schema that reads like XML that learned JSON in prison” IM DEAD
Stealing this. Gold lies at the intersection of cperciva and quinnypig.
by threecheese - This is just the era of AWS (and amazon APIs). A lot of them look like SOAPy xml rpc because thats how they started, based on internal service frameworks. Check out SQS or S3 for similar examples.
Around 2010-11 there was a shift towards RESTish structures and json for serialization. A lot of methods and payloads still feel SOAPy, but look like json. I think it was DynamoDB which had the most unfortunate API with a literal xml-json transform live in the API service.
And then somewhere around 2015 you started seeing more well defined RESTish APIs with better tooling and adoption for smithy (and some openapi, iirc).
by donavanm - Speaking as a former Blog Bar Raiser, cperciva has internalized the AWS blog style guide better than most Amazonians. This is spot-on.by dbarlett
- > cperciva has internalized the AWS blog style guide better than most Amazonians
A little bit of Canadian/non-American English slipped in (eg. enrol, behaviour), which AFAIK would have been flagged for a real Amazon post because as Americans we were brave enough to get rid of the 'U' in a lot of British words, like 'colour' and 'armour'.
But by God, we kept the British 'U' in the word 'glamour'.
by georgemcbay - Wait, there's an official style guide?
(In all seriousness, I've been reading AWS launch posts for 20 years; this one was mainly imitating the S3 Files launch post but I diverged by adding the customer quote and the FAQ -- because of course I started this process with a PRFAQ, and some of the questions in the FAQ are legitimately important.)
by cperciva
love this. reminds me a little of something else in the realm of DNS "hosting" posted to hn a few years ago [0][1]> Q. Is this HIPAA compliant? > A. Please do not store patient information in DNS.[0]https://banner.triweb.dev [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39502097
- cryptoshreddable via a KMS-wrapped DEK in the additional section, job doneby inopinatus