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Tools for managing DNS across multiple providers

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Show HN: WireHub – easily create and share WireGuard networks | Nov 2023

I just use plain DNS with plain Wireguard.

It's not as magic, but DNS can be made easy/automated with https://github.com/octodns/octodns or https://github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol .

The Dhall Configuration Language | Jul 2022

We use https://github.com/octodns/octodns for some of our DNS records. It's flexible, much faster than Terraform for thousands of records, and the maintainer Ross has been responsive on issues and pull requests. Also see Cloudflare's blog for how they use it

NextDNS API | Jun 2022

There are also the following:

* dnscontrol - https://stackexchange.github.io/dnscontrol/

* octodns - https://github.com/octodns/octodns

Why might you run your own DNS server? | Jan 2022

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Perhaps of interest: https://github.com/octodns/octodns

Akamai Edge DNS was down | Jul 2021

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Have them all hot and live rather than any sort of failover system. Keep everything in sync with OctoDNS or similar

https://github.com/octodns/octodns

DNS is fastest first* rather than main/failover. If AWS DNS was down your GCP DNS would have replied (if all is well) sooner than {timeout} so your visitor would still have a response

* Sort of. I think if the client doesn't get a reply from the server it picked randomly in 1s they move on to the next server, repeat until all fail

We Built Our Own DNS Infrastructure | Apr 2021

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We had some success with CoreDNS (over BIND et al): https://coredns.io/manual/toc/

Switched later to OctoDNS, mostly because we didn't want to run DNS infrastructure or deal with racing updates to records: https://github.com/octodns/octodns