Hi
I was wondering if anyone else could see the benefit of being able to
activate and de-activate specific DNS records. Similar to the activate
and de-activate domain feature except for a specific record. Obviously
all records would be activated by default.
I will explain my reason. I have just written a few PHP pages to
function as a dynamic DNS service. (You will probably ask why when there
are so many free ones , well quite simply because overseas access is not
always reliable enough in South Africa) What I started thinking was now
I could use this service for mail spooling , but straight away I
realized that it would not be reliable since the records would be
incorrect if the client machine was off-line. What I came up with was if
I removed the record if it had not been updated for X minutes then I
would never hand out incorrect DNS records. But rather than deleting and
re-creating records I would prefer to just run an
activation/de-activation routine . Then all I would need is a cron job
looking at all my dynamic DNS entries and de-activating ones that are
more than X minutes old leaving the static records in place and mail
backing up on secondary MX server.
I know this is long winded , but I figured if I spelled it out clearly
enough someone else might also think it wasn't such a bad idea.
Regards
Dean
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