Feature Request Poll

[matt]

Inspired by the previous thread of similar name, please vote and/or comment on the features of NicTool most important to you.

[LogicallyRogue]

Perhaps an interesting feature would be the ability to check each zone (either one by one or in a batch) against a Registrar to confirm the name servers listed by the Registrar of record. 

Taking it a step further, compare the Registrar NS information to the name servers which are assigned to the zone within NicTool.  Might make a good auditing tool.

[matt]

LogicallyRogue,

That's a good idea, but very difficult and expensive to implement. Whois queries are limited by the registrars so you can't just go banging against them times to query all the zones of yours that they manage. They'll block you after just a few (often 5) queries.

To get around that, I built a "dns cleaner" system for a company. Each night I got copies of the root zone files (.com, .net, .org, etc) and I sucked those into a MySQL table. Then I ran queries against my NicTool tables and the root tables to verify the nameserver records and expire any zones that had left our name servers.  That's a great solution if you have 400,000 zones. It's not very practical for 400.

[ddorsch]

Hi Matt,

I'm sure you have an eye on that feature request thread in the developement corner.

I'd still like to have a type "URL" (I just talked to another Hostmaster (at another company) who uses an own-developed system and he has developed a similar function for his users without the powerDNS-feature.) Having it would make Nictool all shiny an convenient. The need is there.
(URL: Enter the complete redirection target https://www.foo.com/en/shop/ into Nictool and let an apache handle it, check requested URL, retrieve target from MySQL and hand it to the requester...)

Another whish: Nictool should become capable of domains with umlauts, so that you don't need to enter the eye-unfriendly punycode translations.

Ciao,
Dorothea