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Managing DNS has been considered as an art by many. If you manage your own DNS records, and run your own external DNS servers, I’m sure you have some stories to share. Unfortunately unlike most other infrastructure on the internet, DNS screw-ups can get very costly, especially because caching policies can tend to keep your mistakes alive long after you have rolled back your changes. The unforgiving nature of DNS has forced most, except a few hardcore sys-admins, from avoiding the DNS hell and choosing a managed service to do it for them. Domain name registrars like network solutions, mydomain and godaddy already provide these DNS services, but I can’t recall any of them providing APIs to make these changes automatically. DynDNS does provide an API to change DNS mappings, but it costs15 bucks a year for a single host. There might be others which I’m not aware off, but the bottom line is that there is no standard, and its not cheap. Customers on AWS today unfortunately have t