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by stevekemp 4214 days ago
How does their beta-feature with github work? I can't find any obvious link and it seems frustratingly close to something I offer over at https://dns-api.com/ ..

(I wrap Amazon's route53 with DNS entries read from github/gitbucket/similar.)
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zuccs 4214 days ago
And link to their Git support is here: http://support.dnsimple.com/articles/github-sync/ (if only DNS wasn't down..)
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stevekemp 4214 days ago
Interesting thanks.

An interesting/custom choice to use JSON, and real github integration rather than using hooks as I did.

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zuccs 4214 days ago
Can you use custom nameservers with your service?
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EwanToo 4214 days ago
AWS Route 53 has added vanity DNS in the last few weeks, so you can make your DNS servers appear to be ns0.yourdomain.com rather than ns153.awsdomain.com (or whatever)

However, making your DNS servers to be responsible for serving their own DNS is a bit of an extra complexity and risk that no customer will ever care about..

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zuccs 4213 days ago
Nice. Got a link for this one?
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EwanToo 4213 days ago
It was oddly snuck into the private DNS announcement

http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/route-53-update-private-dns-...

"You can create generic "white label" name servers such as ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com, use them in your delegation set, and point them to your actual Route 53 name servers."

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stevekemp 4214 days ago
When you upload a new zone it will be assigned a set of nameservers - four. You can't choose what they are in advance, and you can't specify the TLDs. So you might end up with "ns-1933.awsdns-49.co.uk.", "ns-1109.awsdns-10.org.", or similar.

Does that answer the question? I'm a little hazy on what you're actually asking.

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