GoNS

GoNS is experimental name server in golang.

Install from binary

You're free to download up-to-date binary from gobuild.io.

HTTP API

Best way to configure GoNS server

Authentication

You must use HTTP Basic authentication. Username and password is set in configuration file.

Handling errors

If GoNS is having trouble, you might see a 5xx error. 500 means that the app is entirely down, but you might also see 502 Bad Gateway, 503 Service Unavailable, or 504 Gateway Timeout. It's your responsibility in all of these cases to retry your request later.

Create record

POST /v1/records.json

Add dns record

Parameter	Description
type	Record type
name	Record name
ttl	Record ttl value
a	Record a value
aaaa	Record aaaa value
ns	Record ns value
mx	Record mx value
txt	Record txt value
cname	Record cname value
preference	Record prefecence value

{
    "type": "cname",
    "name": "git.u3.lt",
    "ttl": 3600,
    "cname": "bitbucket.org."
    ...
}

This will return 201 Created, with the current JSON representation of the record if the creation was a success.

Get record

GET /v1/records/<id>.json

Retrieve the particular record by id

{
    "id": 6,
    "type": "a",
    "name": "ui8.lt.",
    "a": "8.8.8.8",
    "aaaa": "",
    "ns": "",
    "mx": "",
    "txt": "",
    "cname": "",
    "preference": 0,
    "ttl": 3600
}

Get all records

GET /v1/records.json

Retrieve the existing records

[
    {
        "id": 7,
        "type": "a",
        "name": "ui8.lt.",
        "a": "8.8.8.8",
        "aaaa": "",
        "ns": "",
        "mx": "",
        "txt": "",
        "cname": "",
        "preference": 0,
        "ttl": 3600
    },
    {
        "id": 8,
        "type": "a",
        "name": "ns2.ui8.lt.",
        "a": "127.0.0.2",
        "aaaa": "",
        "ns": "",
        "mx": "",
        "txt": "",
        "cname": "",
        "preference": 0,
        "ttl": 3600
    }
]