Hi @splk3 At a high level octoDNS is focused on providing homogenous support across multiple providers and as such historically hasn't adding support for the special types of records that individual providers offer. The SUPPORTS stuff has made that less of a mess than it originally was, but it's still not been something we've looked into/thought about mostly b/c it'll bloat the base/shared parts of things quite a bit over time.

@ross - thanks for the quick response.

I totally understand. I just really like using OctoDNS to manage some of my DNS servers, and sharing changes among team members by having data separate from system/services/etc. has made that really nice. With GSLB-related things and PowerDNS, I'm stuck using template-based configurations, which aren't nearly as nice in terms of the feedback I can build into the pipelines for testing and implementing changes.

Please let me know what I can do to help determine if this is something that is a possibility to be accepted or not, so I can do a little bit more longer-ish term planning. Again, I'm more than happy to make the necessary changes, assuming that I am up to it technically. I certainly don't want to strain the resources of the team for a fringe feature that isn't likely to be used elsewhere any time soon.

I don't mind it conceptually now that things will generally default to ignoring things they don't understand (and if they don't it's a bug.) Without having put too much thought into it and zero looking into if it'd actually work I think the best option would likely be to give providers a way to dynamically install custom record types that would only apply to them. It'd probably be fun to look into and implement, but given that we don't have a use-case for it internally it's not likely to rise in priority enough for me to dig into implementing it.

ok thanks. I'll look into testing it out myself and see if it is doable. Worst-case, it's a small change and we can consider whether or not we want to just have a custom provider for our own or keep things as-is. worth learning the process, in any case.