On Sun, 2021-01-03 at 08:11 +0200, Steve Kemp wrote: > It's an interesting idea, but I suspect in order to be useful it will > need to handle a wider number of sites. > > There are several projects out there which attempt to abstract DNS > entries across systems, allowing you to mirror zones, etc. For > example you might consult: > > https://github.com/octodns/octodns > > Steve > Thank you, Octodns looks very interesting, although it seems to be aimed at rolling out a full set of DNS records for a domain, whereas for a use in a Debian package it would be more a case of adding, for example an SRV record in the postinst, so that the user did not have do do that by hand.
It does have a nice collection of providers, and it would be good to be able to use them to add a single record without replacing the entire zone, which may be possible, with some further investigation. John