Allow root admin to configure DNS servers on behalf of a specific user/domain and support project-scoped DNS servers
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Description
### The required feature described as a wish
Currently, a DNS server can only be set up for the calling account/domain, there is no way for a root admin to configure one on behalf of a different account or domain, and no way for a DNS server to belong to a project.
As a root admin, I would like to be able to:
1. Set up a DNS server on behalf of a specific user/account
2. Set up a DNS server on behalf of a specific domain
3. Attach a DNS server to a project
Additional constraint:
4. If a DNS server was set up by root admin on behalf of a user/domain, that user/domain should not be able to modify its URL themselves. Only root admin (or whoever provisioned it) should be able to change it.
Motivation:
Asks 1 and 2 are primarily driven by the recent restriction that only root admin can configure a DNS server on a private/internal (RFC1918) address, domain admins and regular users can no longer do so directly (see [PR #13821](https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/13821/commits/1545adde35dd68a90291687fc3f7cec23b1e13f6)). Without a way for root admin to provision such a server on behalf of another account/domain, that use case is lost entirely for non-root-admin users.
Ask 3 (project support) wasn't part of the initial scope for this feature. It's being tracked here as a follow-up enhancement rather than a gap in the original design.
Ask 4 follows directly from 1 and 2: if the owning user/domain could freely change the URL afterward, they could redirect an admin-provisioned DNS server anywhere they like, defeating the purpose of restricting private-address setup to root admin in the first place.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reviewing the existing DNS-server configuration flow and PR #13821, then trace how account, domain, project, and root-admin ownership are represented. Done means root admins can provision DNS servers for users, domains, or projects, while provisioned users and domains cannot change their URLs; the scope and permission rules should be covered by appropriate tests.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- authorization, backend-api-design, cloud, networking
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100