Minecraft Automatic SRV and A record maker (Website Review)

Spencer

http://mcserverdns.com/ I need your honest opinons on my website that I am working on. It is meant for minecraft servers to auto create SRV records and A records for their servers. I tried to make it as simple as possible. What do you think? Be brutally honest!

Jacob

Interesting...

bamn

An interesting idea for IP:port services (IRC/web/FTP/SSH running on non-standard port)

jhadley

First world problems...

erhwegesrgsr

Nice, you should make a DIY tutorial on there too though

Spencer

@BronzeByte said: Nice, you should make a DIY tutorial on there too though

Yup I can do that, very easy with minecraft.

jarland

Love it

BlueVM

What does the DNS actually run on? Bind?

AsadHaider

Hey! Where's my credit for being awesome :P

@BlueVM Cloudflare

BlueVM

AsadHaider - So it connects to cloudflare's API to make new entries?

Won't that get confusing after the 4,000th entry?

AsadHaider

@BlueVM Yeah, and no idea.. blame Spencer if it breaks :D

Zen

@BlueVM said: What does the DNS actually run on? Bind?

Wouldn't be surprised if it just interfaces the API for some DNS provider (cf/dme/etc)

Would be interested in the code for this, but then again it appears there is no user/domain management, probably no admin panel, so I'm going to say its sub-100 lines of code (at least that's as short as I could make it) in which case it doesn't have too much value to me learning wise :)

@BlueVM said: Won't that get confusing after the 4,000th entry?

Why would it be confusing?

BlueVM

We're looking at offering free yourchoice.bvm.mx domains to our clients, I like the idea of using cloudflare, but could you imagine loading the dns page on the actual site if the entries got above about 200 or so?

Spencer

@BlueVM said: AsadHaider - So it connects to cloudflare's API to make new entries?

Won't that get confusing after the 4,000th entry?

Yup it just calls the API and creates them. I never have to log in to the cloudflare panel at all so it won't be confusing at all.

Spencer

@Zen said: Would be interested in the code for this, but then again it appears there is no user/domain management, probably no admin panel, so I'm going to say its sub-100 lines of code (at least that's as short as I could make it) in which case it doesn't have too much value to me learning wise :)

Yea its not much at all, only about 200 lines of code at most

Zen

@BlueVM said: We're looking at offering free yourchoice.bvm.mx domains to our clients, I like the idea of using cloudflare, but could you imagine loading the dns page on the actual site if the entries got above about 200 or so?

If it got above that, hell even with a few, I would just add to this by making an entire panel to search, add, remove, etc via the CF API - preload the new entries every minute into a DB so you have no loading issues, and bam. Think outside the box :)

Effectively the CF API (and others) allow you to make a more functional version of the CF website, efficiency wise, if you really want to.

BlueVM

I suppose I could just avoid loading that page and use the API for everything... not a bad idea.

bnmkl

Zen

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bnmkl

@zen - :-)

Spencer

@Zen said: If it got above that, hell even with a few, I would just add to this by making an entire panel to search, add, remove, etc via the CF API - preload the new entries every minute into a DB so you have no loading issues, and bam. Think outside the box :)

Yup that is what we do. I just have a little script on that will remove them. But the issue is that cloudflares api is a little mehh. There is currently no search feature at all. So you can't send it a dns record and have it return if it is valid or not, along with a few other features. You really can't get any info from the api it is really only put minus a few api calls.

Zen

@Spencer said: Yup that is what we do. I just have a little script on that will remove them. But the issue is that cloudflares api is a little mehh. There is currently no search feature at all. So you can't send it a dns record and have it return if it is valid or not, along with a few other features. You really can't get any info from the api it is really only put minus a few api calls.

Grab a list, store, compare?... O_o

Spencer

@Zen said: Grab a list, store, compare?... O_o

That is so much more work :p think lazy like me!

lbft

@BlueVM said: could you imagine loading the dns page on the actual site if the entries got above about 200 or so?

With big zones, CF loads the records only as you scroll. With really big zones, after a while it shows a 'Load more records' button instead.

SimpleNode

IMHO, "mcserverdns.com" is too long.

NickM

It's a shame that Monaco requires you to have a registered business in their country to get one of their TLDs. You'd be able to get dns.mc for about $50 a year...

JTR

@NickM said: It's a shame that Monaco requires you to have a registered business in their country to get one of their TLDs. You'd be able to get dns.mc for about $50 a year...

If you add a number to your domain (something short like "a1"), you can often get a 2char ccTLD. It's not optimal, but if you really need something short, it's better than nothing.

Or you could try snagging one of the few remaining 3char .me domains. When I grabbed mine last year (vkk.me) I believe there were under 10 remaining (at least according to what I used to find vkk), but there might be some left. Unfortunately, I lost the link to the site with the listings, so you'd need to do some digging to find it again.

Spencer

@SimpleNode said: IMHO, "mcserverdns.com" is too long.

Yea im working on adding an option so you can pick, I just can't find any good short mc related domains.

@NickM said: t's a shame that Monaco requires you to have a registered business in their country to get one of their TLDs. You'd be able to get dns.mc for about $50 a year...

Ahhh damn that would be sweet.

Infinity

mcservr.com?

Spencer

@Infinity said: mcservr.com?

Just bought thanks :)

kamalnasser

How does it work?