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DZone > Integration Zone > Tooling to Help Aggregate DNS Across Multiple Service Providers

Tooling to Help Aggregate DNS Across Multiple Service Providers

In Kin Lane's opinion, it seems relevant right now to learn as much as possible about different aggregate DNS API solutions.

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Adrian Cockroft turned me on to a DNS aggregation solution the other day while I was working on updating the API definitions for the API providers that are included in my API DNS research. It was a very appropriate day for thinking deeply about aggregate DNS, with the DDOS attack against Dyn going on.

DNS provider redundancy: the idea behind @denominatorOSS - one API/tool for many providers to allow switching. /cc @adrianfcole

— adrian cockcroft (@adrianco)

Denominator  is a portable Java library for manipulating DNS clouds. It has pluggable backends including AWS Route53, Neustar Ultra, DynECT, Rackspace Cloud DNS, and OpenStack Designate. Here is a good post on it from back in 2013, describing it as a multi-vendor interface for DNS. 

There doesn't look to be a lot of activity around the project in the last year, but it provides a good model for what I'd like to eventually see across all the major stops along the API lifecycle. I picture a wealth of aggregate tooling like Denominator that can act as a broker between API service providers and help switch, migrate, and sync between providers whether you are deploying, managing, testing, monitoring, or dialing in your DNS.

As I read the multiple investigations into what happened with the DDOS attack on Dyn last week, it seems relevant to learn more about aggregate DNS API solutions like Denominator. I will spend some time looking for other similar open tooling that is vendor-neutral, as well as vendor-switchable. We are going to need open source circuit breakers like this to help route, switch, migrate, and sync DNS across many service providers in this volatile landscape.

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