I have a bunch of slave zones in the Linode DNS Manager. One thing that might be useful would be to display the serial of the zone that was last loaded. That might be too difficult to do with the data being in different places, but it would be nice to see that changes get picked up a propagated correctly.

for i in 1 2 3 4; do
    dig +short @ns${i}.linode.com $DOMAINNAME SOA | awk " { print \$3 }"
done

If the web interface looked these values up for you, it would have to do something similar to this anyway.

Yea, perhaps a little bit of laziness on my part. But, it's a detail that might be seen as useful on the web interface. It could confirm that the zone was loaded. Maybe like 4 little green status gifs that turn red if the zone isn't loaded or something. Could put the serial and other info in a mouse hover. I dunno, just throwing some ideas out there.

There's some bigger DNS-related bugs I'd like to see addressed first.

Care to elaborate?