Managing the DNS Server via the Web Console

The Coadunation Web Admin Console makes it possible to manage the DNS server via a web browser.

The following functionality is provided through the Admin console on the "dns/MBeanManager" URL:

• Create Zone: Create a primary zone on the server.
• Create Secondary Zone: Create a zone that will transfer from another server.
• Get Zone: Get the zone contents.
• List Zones: List the zones served out by this server.
• Update Zone: Update the contents of a Zone.
• Remove Zone: Remove a zone from the server.

Create a Zone
The create zone call takes two values.

1. Zone Name: The name of the domain to create e.g example.com
2. Zone: The contents of the domain e.g
   
example.com. 604800 IN SOA example.com. root.localhost. 1 604800 86400 2419200 604800
example.com. 604800 IN NS ns.example.com.
example.com. 604800 IN A 192.168.1.1
www.example.com. 604800 IN A 192.168.1.101
ns.example.com. 604800 IN A 192.168.1.101

   Note: All domain names must be fully qualified

Create Secondary Zone
This call takes two values:

1. zoneName: The name of the zone that this server will act as secondary for.
2. remote: The ip address of the remote server to transfer from.

get Zone
Retrieves the contents of the zone.

1. zoneName: The name of the zone to retrieve the contents for.

List Zones
List the zones hosted by this server

1. type: An integer value either [1: Primary, 2: Secondary, 3: All]

Update Zone
Updates the contents of a zone

1. Zone Name: The name of the domain to create e.g example.com
2. Zone: The contents of the domain e.g
   
example.com. 604800 IN SOA example.com. root.localhost. 1 604800 86400 2419200 604800
example.com. 604800 IN NS ns.example.com.
example.com. 604800 IN A 192.168.1.1
www.example.com. 604800 IN A 192.168.1.101
ns.example.com. 604800 IN A 192.168.1.101

   Note: All domain names must be fully qualified

Remove Zone
Removes the zone from the server

1. zoneName: The name of the zone to remove from the server.