awdns - Command line DNS admin tool for AWS

Create, update and delete DNS records and zones hosted at AWS.

Motivation

AWS console and official CLI are both powerful, yet complicated. awdns is a simple CLI tool to ease the burden of administering Route53 DNS domains for the most popular DNS records (A, AAAA).

Features

• List all zones
• List all records in a zone
• Add a record to a zone
• Delete records from a zone
• Terse Unix responses (default) or verbose JSON responses.

Examples

List all zones in the AWS account.

awdns zones

List all zones in the AWS account, with JSON output.

awdns --verbose zones

List all records associated with a single zone, in a BIND-like format.

awdns ls example.com

Add a new record, to a pre-existing zone in the AWS account.

awdns add foo4.example.com 127.0.0.1

Delete all records matching NAME, from a pre-existing zone in the AWS account.

awdns del foo4.example.com

Usage

AWS authentication is handled via the AWS JavaScript SDK. See Setting Credentials in Node.js for details.

Full usage documentation via --help on the command line:

$ awdns --help
Usage: awdns [options] [command]

Options:
  -V, --version         output the version number
  --ttl <num>           Specify TTL for new records (default: 300)
  --verbose             Enable verbose responses
  -h, --help            display help for command

Commands:
  add <FQDN> <address>  Add A or AAAA record to zone
  del <FQDN>            Delete all RRs from a zone with given FQDN
  ls <DOMAIN>           List all records for zone
  zones                 List all zones
  help [command]        display help for command

Installation

npm install --global awdns