Years ago when the DNS challenge was originally implemented in Caddy, compatibility with each DNS provider had to be a plugin, but that’s no longer the case. We have the option of making all of lego’s ~50 DNS providers just work for all Caddy instances without needing special builds of Caddy. Howe…

Seems like the polling is in favor of this (76% yes as I write this). What’s the timeline for a decision on this?

I don’t currently have one, sorry. Been focused on a few other coming improvements. :slight_smile:

I’m on the fence about this, although I am part of the 72% that don’t want DNS provider plugins. OTOH, the sheer doubling of the binary size can’t be good. Ideally, the ability to download and use whatever DNS provider is required post-install would be a good middle ground IMHO.

I would say that it’s not worth bloating the binary, but it really could save new users a lot of time. And it probably would encourage more users to use DNS challenge for internally served items instead of unnecessarily exposing their app to the Internet, which I’ve seen happen in a few places. I …

Both good feedback. Thanks both, @Strykar and @emmaly - I guess it comes down to just needing to make a decision. I’m going to hold out for now because of the time investment needed to do it, and I have a lot pressing at the moment, but I will keep considering this for the future!

I’m somewhat pragmatic when evaluating technical choices, probably as a result of my prior Silicon Valley experience. On the plus side, Caddy’s resident set size (RSS) is laughable… even if you double its size (even on a RAM-starved server). That leaves me with one final analysis - the perceived …

Perhaps the middle ground would be to offer 2 binaries – one with DNS, one without.

That’s what we do already, except for the binary with DNS you get to choose with providers.

I hope this doesn’t go in because its going to bloat Caddy and tax resources.

Hi @Milos_Bejda , other than 20MB of disk space, which resources are you expecting this to tax, exactly?

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Poll: We can end DNS provider plugins. Should we?

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