Dns-zone-records:POST
From Hostway API Documentation
POST /dns/{zone}/records
Creates new DNS zone records.
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Request
POST /dns/{zone}/records
Parameters
- zone - string
- The name of the DNS zone.
URI Parameters
None.
Request Headers
- Authorization
- Base64-encoded username:password string
- Content-Type
- application/json
Request Body
Added support for wildcard domain names.
Ex:
*
*.somedomain.com
The wildcard record name is stored in the database as it is supplied.
If it's missing the zone origin(i.e. '*') the API will return it with the zone
appended, i.e. '*.domain.com'.
Added support for @ records, which represent the origin itself.
Ex:
@
The API will return the record with the zone origin appended to the name, i.e. '@.domain.com'
A record
{
"name": "{domain}",
"type": "A",
"address": "{ip_address}",
"ttl": 3600
}
- name
- Fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the record
- address
- IPv4 address
- ttl
- Time to live (TTL) for the record in seconds
AAAA record
{
"name": "{domain}",
"type": "AAAA",
"address": "{ipv6_address}",
"ttl": 3600
}
- name
- Fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the record
- address
- IPv6 address
- ttl
- Time to live (TTL) for the record in seconds
NS record
{
"name": "{domain}",
"type": "NS",
"nsdname": "{ns_domain}",
"ttl": 3600
}
- name
- Fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the record
- nsdname
- FQDN of the host which should be authoritative for the domain
- ttl
- Time to live (TTL) for the record in seconds
TXT record
{
"name": "{domain}",
"type": "TXT",
"data": "{data}",
"ttl": 3600
}
- name
- Fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the record
- data
- TXT record data
- ttl
- Time to live (TTL) for the record in seconds
SRV record
{
"name": "{domain}",
"type": "SRV",
"priority": {priority},
"weight": {weight},
"port": {port},
"target": "{target}",
"ttl": 3600
}
- name
- Fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the record
- priority
- The priority of this target host
- weight
- Server selection mechanism
- port
- The port on this target host of this service
- target
- The domain name of the target host
- ttl
- Time to live (TTL) for the record in seconds
MX record
{
"name": "{domain}",
"type": "MX",
"preference": {preference},
"exchange": "{mx_domain}",
"ttl": 3600
}
- name
- Fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the record
- preference
- Integer which specifies the preference given to this record among others at the same owner
- exchange
- FQDN which specifies a host willing to act as a mail exchange for the owner name
- ttl
- Time to live (TTL) for the record in seconds
CNAME record
{
"name": "{name}",
"type": "CNAME",
"cname": "{domain}",
"ttl": 3600
}
- name
- Fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the record
- cname
- FQDN which specifies the canonical or primary name for the owner
- ttl
- Time to live (TTL) for the record in seconds
Response
Status Code
- 201 OK
- Success
- 400 Bad Request
- TTL is below allowed minimum
- 401 Unauthorized
- The server could not verify the credentials from the authorization header.
- 404 Not Found
- The specified zone does not exist.
- 409 Conflict
- Requested record conflicts with existing one.
Response Header
- Location
- The URI of the new DNS record.
Examples
Successful Request
Request
POST /dns/test.com/records
Authorization: Basic {base64_encoded(username:password)}
{
"name": "alt.test.com",
"type": "CNAME",
"cname": "altdomain.com"
}
Response
201 Created Location: https://api.hostway.com/dns/test.com/records/447
Unauthorized Request
Request
POST /dns/test.com/records
{
"name": "alt.test.com",
"type": "CNAME",
"cname": "altdomain.com"
}
Response
401 Unauthorized
Attempt to create duplicate record
Request
POST /dns/test.com/records
Authorization: Basic {base64_encoded(username:password)}
{
"name": "alt.test.com",
"type": "CNAME",
"cname": "altdomain.com"
}
Response
409 Conflict
{
"conflict": {"message": "Data conflict", "code": 409, "details": ""}
}
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