*Configurable* local DNS server?

Question

I would like to have a local DNS server which I can configure in some way. Maybe a php script, which gets the requested hostname and returns the IP. I don't want to have an IP/Hostname list, but I want to generate the IPs in code! Do you know how to do this?

Answer 1

Simple DNS Plus has several APIs (plain HTTP, .NET, COM, command line) that are easy to use.

For example, you could add an IP-address (A-record) by seding it a simple HTTP request like "http://127.0.0.1:8053/updatehost?host=test.example.com&data=1.2.3.4" - which you could issue from your PHP script with the standard cURL library.

Answer 2

See How to Build a custom simple DNS server in C/C++.

Answer 3

Maybe MyDNS is something to look into. It gets the IPs from a database (MySQL or PostgreSQL).

I don't know if it can be hooked directly to another source. But maybe it is wiser to decouple that and let the database be updated from the internet-source and let the DNS system query the database.

Answer 4

How about utilizing your hosts file?

Answer 5

I'm not quite sure what it is that you want, but many routers have a built in DNS capability which is usually very easy to use.