tonicdnscli 0.2

TonicDNS CLI tool

`tonicdnscli` is TonicDNS Client tool.
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This command line tool for TonicDNS API.
TonicDNS is RESTful API for PowerDNS.
Convert readble text record to JSON, and create or delete zone records with TonicDNS.

Requirements
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* Python 2.7 or Python 3.2 later.

Setup
-----
::

$ git clone https://github.com/mkouhei/tonicdnscli
$ cd tonicdnscli
$ sudo python setup.py install

History
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0.2 (2012-04-20)
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* Support Python3
* Add option `-P` as password prompt with echo turned off

0.1 (2012-04-20)
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* first release

Usage
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Input file (example.org.txt)
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::

# name type content ttl priority
test0.example.org A 10.10.10.10 86400
test1.example.org A 10.10.10.11 86400
test2.example.org A 10.10.10.12 86400
example.org MX mx.example.org 86400 0
example.org MX mx2.example.org 86400 10
mx.example.org A 10.10.11.10 3600
mx2.example.org A 10.10.11.10 3600

Print converted JSON
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::

$ tonicdnscli -o sample/example.org.txt
{
"records": [
{
"content": "10.10.10.10",
"name": "test0.example.org",
"ttl": "86400",
"type": "A"
},
{
"content": "10.10.10.11",
"name": "test1.example.org",
"ttl": "86400",
"type": "A"
},
{
"content": "10.10.10.12",
"name": "test2.example.org",
"ttl": "86400",
"type": "A"
},
(snip)

Retrieve records
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::

$ tonicdnscli -g -s ns.example.org -u tonicusername -P sample/example.org.txt
{
"name": "example.org",
"notified_serial": "2012021402",
"records": [
{
"content": "ns.example.org hostmaster.example.org 2012021402",
"name": "example.org",
"priority": null,
"ttl": "86400",
"type": "SOA"
},
{
"content": "ns.example.org",
"name": "example.org",
"priority": null,
"ttl": "86400",
"type": "NS"
},
(snip)

Create records
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::

$ tonicdnscli -c -s ns.example.org -u tonicusername -P sample/example.org.txt
True

Delete records
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::

$ tonicdnscli -d -s ns.example.org -u tonicusername -P sample/example.org.txt
True
ToDo
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Features
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* Checking existing records When create or delete records.
* Updating records.

Improvement
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* Change optparse to argparse, because optparse is obsoleted.

* http://www.python.jp/doc/nightly/library/optparse.html
* http://www.python.jp/doc/nightly/library/argparse.html#module-argparse

* Add test units.