@iliana
Please explain the concept of a DNS API to me without involving iliana? (That is, remove her username from your reply?)
@catoutofbed
Well, I get the ba... wait a minute, DNS is itself an API, isn't it? I asked a question I already knew the answer to. Damn.
@Terxbor
hehehe
i think what iliana is looking for is a way to automate some of the configuring of dns entries
@catoutofbed @Terxbor
This is possibly the most adorable explanation of this ever?
@SilviaFox @Terxbor
poor confused computers, they're doing their best
@Terxbor I had to read the thread for context, otherwise I wasn't sure what iliana meant myself. But the idea seems to be this: DNS hosts usually have either some web form or some text file that you have to use to configure which records should be in your DNS zone. iliana wants to offer an alternative, where programs can automatically add or remove records without too much code, so it's no good having to mangle a text file or script access to a web form. Is that a helpful explanation?
@Terxbor
so
computers only know how to find eachother with numbers
but people don't like numbers, they like names
so your computer remembers a couple of numbers
and it asks the servers at those numbers to translate the names into numbers
this is how jess.coffee turns into 158.69.207.16
and then it gets waaaaaay more complicated