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If you click on the "custom DNS server" link on the site, you will get a surprise

hah, they wrote it in node.

Nice, although were I to write one, I'd probably just use PowerDNS and its pipe backend. Probably only some 30 lines of Perl/Ruby/whatever. Example: http://wiki.powerdns.com/trac/browser/trunk/pdns/modules/pip...