It's an important piece to abstract away the differences among DNS providers.
+1 to have it in core. On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Dinesh Bhoopathy <[email protected] > wrote: > +1 on this! > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:39 PM, John Carr <[email protected]> wrote: > > +1 to having this in core. > > > > On 10 Sep 2013, at 22:22, Tomaz Muraus <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> All, > >> > >> Over the weekend I migrated some of my domains to a different DNS > provider ( > >> > http://www.tomaz.me/2013/09/07/exporting-libcloud-dns-zone-to-bind-zone-file-format-and-migrating-between-dns-providers.html > >> so > >> I wrote a very simple script which allows you to export Libcloud zone to > >> BIND zone format. > >> > >> Script is available at > >> > https://github.com/Kami/python-libcloud-dns-to-bind-zone/blob/master/libcloud_to_bind/__init__.py > >> > >> I believe this functionality would be useful in Libcloud core so I > propose > >> the addition of the following methods to the base DNS driver: > >> > >> - Zone.export_to_bind_format(file_obj) > >> - driver.export_zone_to_bind_format(zone, file_obj) > >> > >> Some people might ask why would we add this to the core, but not > >> functionality for exporting VMs to different formats: > >> > >> - VM export functionality is not supported by every provider. > >> - This code is simple and has no external dependencies. VM conversion > code > >> would be anything but simple. Besides that, there are already other > tools > >> which can do this (there is a redhat tool which can do that, but I can't > >> remember the name atm). > >> > >> I would love to hear other people's opinion. Do you think this would be > >> useful in the core? Do you think this belongs in the core? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Tomaz > > > > > > -- > Dinesh >
