It would be really quite nice if there was some way to mass update some/all of the DNS records in DNS manager. For example I recently switch from using an HE IPv6 tunnel to Linode provided native IPv6 which necessitated updating every single domain by hand. It would have been very nice to have a "add X record to all domains" or "replace all instances of X for Y".

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Have you tried rebooting?

This may not be what you had in mind, but there are APIs to do these things if you want to automate things: http://www.linode.com/api/dns

As an example of how the API can be used to solve this for the programatically-inclined, here is a quick, one-off script I wrote shortly after the API was released. I used it to move "everything else" from an old Linode in Dallas to a new one in Newark:

#!/usr/bin/python
import api

instance = api.Api(key='urmom')

for domain in instance.domain_list():
    if domain['TYPE'] == 'master':
        print "Updating %s (%i)..." % (domain['DOMAIN'], domain['DOMAINID'])
        for resource in instance.domain_resource_list(
                                            domainid=domain['DOMAINID']):
            if resource['TYPE'] == 'AAAA' and \
               resource['TARGET'] == '2001:470:1f06:f41::2':
                print 'Old AAAA Record Found: %s.%s (%i)' % \
                    (resource['NAME'], domain['DOMAIN'],
                     resource['RESOURCEID'])
                newresid = instance.domain_resource_create(
                    domainid=domain['DOMAINID'],
                    type='AAAA',
                    name=resource['NAME'],
                    target='2001:470:1f07:f41::dead:beef')
                print '  Created resource %i' % newresid['ResourceID']
                oldresid = instance.domain_resource_delete(
                    domainid=domain['DOMAINID'],
                    resourceid=resource['RESOURCEID'])
                print '  Deleted resource %i' % oldresid['ResourceID']
            elif resource['TYPE'] == 'A' and \
                 resource['TARGET'] == '67.18.176.246':
                print 'Old A Record Found: %s.%s (%i)' % \
                    (resource['NAME'], domain['DOMAIN'],
                     resource['RESOURCEID'])
                newresid = instance.domain_resource_create(
                    domainid=domain['DOMAINID'],
                    type='A',
                    name=resource['NAME'],
                    target='97.107.134.213')
                print '  Created resource %i' % newresid['ResourceID']
                oldresid = instance.domain_resource_delete(
                    domainid=domain['DOMAINID'],
                    resourceid=resource['RESOURCEID'])
                print '  Deleted resource %i' % oldresid['ResourceID']

The key part is iterating over the domain_list, then over each record (domain_resource_list).

Obviously not an easy pointy-clicky way, but indeed, it is "some way." And more flexible, especially for my most-recent change, which moved from one IPv6 address for all sites to one IPv6 address for each site.

(I'd share the script for that, but there was no script. My work-anticipator -- the part of the brain that optimizes for maximum laziness -- told me it'd be more work to write a script to do everything than it would be to just do it. My work-anticipator was a lying sack of shit.)

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Wow, cool! I don't have a need for this kind of thing right now, but I may have to move off Fremont, so this is awesome to know I can do something like this.

Thanks!
bruce