nsd users - Feb 2013 - backend database

Hello I have install and setup NSD, so far got it up and running but
currently I have only few testing zones.

I found on the net  that as of March, 2008, three of the Internet root
nameservers are using NSD.

my question is, how the zones are manage or handle when you have more
than 100 domains or in cases like the 'root nameservers'

Is there a backed database or any tools that could help managing all the
records/domains per zones?

The point of my question is that I would like to use NSD as a DNS server
for my zones and have the ability to change some IN A records trough a
custom API to make my own dynamic DNS.

any ideas ?

regards.

Hello,
> The point of my question is that I would like to use NSD as a DNS server
> for my zones and have the ability to change some IN A records trough a
> custom API to make my own dynamic DNS.
I think you're asking for a REST API or a Web-based interface. Neither
of those exist for NSD, at least not that I'm aware of. If you really
want to go that route, you'd have to create a provisioning system which
subsequently produces zone master files ready for NSD to compile and
serve.

(What you _could_ do, but that entails using more software, is to, say,
 set up a PowerDNS authoritative server which has a back-end database,
 and have your NSD slave zones from it. But that is a bit off-topic for
 this list, I think. :)


Regards,

        -JP