Hetzner DNS is now supported

A lot of European teams host on Hetzner, and Hetzner's DNS Console is free with any account. You can now connect it to DNScheck.

Setup

In the Hetzner DNS Console, open API tokens and create a token. Paste it into DNScheck under Providers → Connect provider → Hetzner. That's the whole setup.

How it works

Hetzner zones get the same treatment as every other provider. DNScheck syncs every five minutes, diffs each record against the last known state, and stores the result in the zone history. Alerts go to whatever email, Telegram, or webhook destinations your team has set up.

The Hetzner API returns the nameservers it has assigned to each zone. DNScheck compares those against the live NS records for your domain. If the domain gets pointed somewhere else while your records still live at Hetzner, you hear about it.

One detail worth mentioning: Hetzner stores MX and SRV priorities inside the record value (10 mail.example.com) rather than in a separate field. DNScheck splits the priority out so the editor looks the same as on every other provider, and joins it back when it writes to Hetzner.

You can edit A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, NS, SRV, and CAA records. The providers docs cover the details.