IPAM Services -> SRV Record

[lukirs95]

THANK YOU for this great plugin

Question

I use the IPAM Services feature a lot and I think it would be helpful to add automatic SRV entries in Managed Records for IPAM Services that are assigned to DNS entries.

Workflow idea

Create IP Address 192.0.0.1 -> Add DNS Name "test.example.org" -> Create Service "ldap" with protocol TCP on port 389 and assign to address 192.0.0.1

Within DNS Zone "example.org" a new Managed SRV Record appears with "_ldap.tcp.example.org" that points to "test.example.org"

Do you think that would help the community?

[peteeckel]

Hi @lukirs95, thanks for the kind words and the feature idea!

Actually you can do something like that right now with Event Hooks in NetBox. Create a script that adds a SRV record and assign it to the events that are created when adding or modifying a service -> voilá.

Doing this as a core functionality in the DNS plugin is a bit more involved. Look at the logic that is used in the IPAM DNSsync functionality to see what I mean - we need to determine in which zone such a SRV record should be created. Probably that can be done with the same logic (prefixes assigned to views), but I guess covering the general case would be something that needs a lot more thought - it's easier to handle your special case for you than the general case for everyone.

It could, however, be a very nice new example for the collection, so when I find the time I'll be glad to sit down and build it.

Moving this to a discussion - maybe someone else has some ideas how to do it, and I'm also interested in knowing whether this is of broader interest, which always helps to prioritise stuff.

[lukirs95]

That sounds fantastic! I will try it with Event Hooks and see how far I can get with this.

Indeed my first thought was, this should be easy to implement applying the same logic like prefix -> view, but I haven't looked at the code yet to see what of an impact it is.

Thank you!