Robb. Knight.

After setting up DNSControl I wanted to use it to move away from DigitalOcean^[1] to Bunny DNS. I'd already moved my servers to Hetzner but the DNS was more complicated. This domain, for example, has 45 records for subdomains, CNAMES for Netlify, plus verification stuff so I didn't want to risk moving it manually.

I added my Bunny API keys to creds.json, updated my dnsconfig.js, adding Bunny as a new provider, and switched the provider in the config for the domain:

var DSP_DIGITALOCEAN = NewDnsProvider("digitalocean");
+ var DSP_BUNNY = NewDnsProvider("bunny");

D("rknight.me", REG_NONE
-   , DnsProvider(DSP_DIGITALOCEAN)
+   , DnsProvider(DSP_BUNNY)
    , DefaultTTL(1800)
    , A("@", HETZNER_MAIN)
    , A("www", HETZNER_MAIN)
)

I ran dnscontrol push to push those records to Bunny^[2] and then updated the nameservers in Hover so the domain was pointing to Bunny. Hover isn't supported by DNSControl so the nameservers had to be done by me but for registrars that are supported, I was able to have that automated as well. The nameservers for Bunny (kiki.bunny.net and coco.bunny.net) are automatically set from the registrar, so you don't need to define them yourself as I found out.

+ var REG_PORKBUN = NewRegistrar("porkbun"); 

- D("knightshift.dev", REG_NONE
+ D("knightshift.dev", REG_PORKBUN
	, DnsProvider(DSP_BUNNY)
	, DefaultTTL(1800)
	, A("@", HETZNER_MAIN)
	, A("www", HETZNER_MAIN)
	, A("msorc", HETZNER_MAIN)
)

Once I'd done that for the other domains I use, I wanted my DNSControl to at least be aware of two other domains that just redirect to my main site (this is handled in Hover). If you set a domain with no registrar and no provider, you'll get an error about having no nameservers. To fix this, I added { no_ns:'true' }. This doesn't actually do anything, but it's handy to have a record of every domain I have in one place.

D("therobb.com", REG_NONE, { no_ns:'true' }); // => rknight.me

This setup already came in handy yesterday when I needed to prove ownership of one of my domains: add one line, run dnscontrol push, done.