API endpoint to manage custom dns entries?

[jdani]

Hi all 😃

my gut feeeling tells me this is something that has been discussed somewhere before, but I didn't find it, so here it goes

In my homelab I was running blocky as an adblocker and internal dns server. It just works, no more complex than needed, but neither simpler. I like that 👍

But when I started using external-dns to get my ingresses fqdn's availables from the network automatically, I realized there was not a blocky provider. I tried to figure out an out of the box approach to make it work (updating the config and reload the config, for example?). I think a dedicated API Endpoint to manage the custom dns records can be useful in a number of situations, but in particular to write an external-dns provider.

Does this sound useful for someone else?

Regards

[ThinkChaos]

I personally don't like the idea of creating an API for this as it's essentially dynamic DNS which is standard.
So I would say it seems out of scope and to look into running a full DNS server upstream of blocky.