The design of Galiumfred

Galiumfred has been designed to create a web based solution for DNS registrations. It is based on the hard work from Timgws. This page will cover the design of the current galiumfred.

The backend

I will try and explain the parts of the backend galiumfred uses below.

The backend is kept on a DB using MySQL. It uses a the table strucure required for MyDNS, so the package can use a galiumfred DB natively. This is to prevent a re-invention of the wheel, as MyDNS is a good solution for the problem at hand. This also allows for the other great MyDNS tools to be used against galiumfred.

Below are the tables in the galiumfred DB.

countries

Holds a list of countries presented during the user registration process

dns_nsset

Holds user NS records for their domains

dns_rr

Holds the resource records for galiumfred

dns_soa

Holds the domain SOA information

domain_dns_txt

Currently not used

domain_words

Contains the random list of words displayed on the seach form

errorlog

Holds any site generated error messages

tlds

Holds the TLDs the server is allowed to register

users

Holds all of hte user information gathered during registration

Scripts

There is only one perl script that does the backend heavy-towing. This script is only used if bind9 is the DNS server in use. Its job is to go through the DB and generate the required zone files. It then transfers a bind9 include file to the slave server's. Bind9 is then reloaded, and all the required zones are transfered using bind9.

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The design of Galiumfred

The backend

DB

Scripts