Management of domain name services across multiple device and software configurations

A computing apparatus comprising:

• a storage system;
• a processing system operatively coupled to the storage system;
• and
• program instructions stored on the storage system that, when executed by the processing system, direct the computing apparatus to:
• receive a domain name system (DNS) configuration from a coordination service at a computing element, wherein the DNS configuration comprises a plurality of rules, and wherein each rule or the plurality of rules associates at least one domain name with a nameserver of a plurality of nameservers;
• identify an operating system configuration on the computing element;
• for each rule of the plurality of rules in the DNS configuration, map the rule to a local rule implementation for the computing element based on the operating system configuration on the computing element, wherein each local rule implementation indicates whether the rule should be implemented in an operating system for the computing element or a DNS application separate from the operating system on the computing element based on the operating system configuration;
• and
• apply the local rule implementations in the computing element.

A system comprising:

• a plurality of computing systems;
• and
• a coordination service computing system;
• a first computing system of the plurality of computing systems configured to:
• receive a domain name system (DNS) configuration from a coordination service, wherein the DNS configuration comprises a plurality of rules, and wherein each rule or the plurality of rules associates at least one domain name with a nameserver of a plurality of nameservers;
• identify an operating system configuration on the first computing system;
• for each rule of the plurality of rules in the DNS configuration, map the rule to a local rule implementation for the first computing system based on the operating system configuration on the first computing system, wherein each local rule implementation indicates whether the rule should be implemented in an operating system for the first computing system or a DNS application separate from the operating system on the first computing system based on the operating system configuration;
• and
• apply the local rule implementations in the computing system.