February 6th, 2007

DNS for your Slices

A long overdue feature – DNS management. Thanks to everyone for their patience while we worked on this. Onto the nitty gritty:
  • You’ll notice a DNS item on the Slice tab. From here you can manage domains, their records and configure reverse DNS entries.
  • If you’re a DNS power user, this first release isn’t for you. It geared for simple setups and only allows for basic record types (A, CNAME, MX). Once we iron out the kinks, we plan on adding an advanced tab covering all of the record types.

Let us know if you have any questions. We hope this helps everyone out. Enjoy!

Update – advanced config options in place.

Posted by matt Filed in slicehost

11 Comments

  1. March 17th, 2008 at 10:00 PM Piotr Banasik

    Great! Looking forward to the advanced tab, for now it isn’t enough for me. I did set my reverse dns tho =)

  2. March 17th, 2008 at 10:00 PM Lindsay Evans

    Awesome news, can’t wait for the advanced version :)

    Out of curiosity – how long should it take for the reverse DNS entry to take effect?

  3. March 17th, 2008 at 10:00 PM matt

    Within an hour.

  4. March 17th, 2008 at 10:00 PM mastertsunami

    Awesomeee!

  5. March 17th, 2008 at 10:00 PM saluk

    Great job slicehost team!

  6. March 17th, 2008 at 10:00 PM Paul Roberts

    Reverse DNS – sweet! Thank you Slicehost.

  7. March 17th, 2008 at 10:00 PM Mike Bailey

    This looks like it could be really convenient.

    Are the DNS hosts on separate networks, power, etc?

    Are you writing a restful interface for this? It would be nice to be able to configure DNS using Capistrano.

  8. March 17th, 2008 at 10:00 PM slicematt

    The third nameserver will be offsite Mike, we’re still setting it up at the moment. No plans for a restful interface, but it could certainly be added pretty easily – good idea!

  9. March 17th, 2008 at 10:00 PM Huib

    When I try to update records in the Advanced mode I get “Application error (Rails)”

  10. March 17th, 2008 at 10:00 PM matt

    Whoops – should be fixed.

  11. March 17th, 2008 at 10:00 PM Tomislav

    When you update a blog post it doesn’t appear as updated in Google Reader (and I presume in other readers). It would be nice if you made a seperate post.

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