Creating a Private Zone¶
Function¶
Create a private zone.
URI¶
POST /v2/zones
Request¶
Parameter description
¶ Parameter
Mandatory
Type
Description
name
Yes
String
Domain name of the zone to be created
If a domain name is ended with a dot (.), it cannot exceed 254 characters.
Otherwise, the domain name cannot exceed 253 characters.
A domain name cannot exceed 63 characters. Multiple domain names are separated with dots (.).
A domain name is case insensitive. Uppercase letters will also be converted into lowercase letters.
description
No
String
Description of the domain name, which cannot exceed 255 characters
The value is left blank by default.
zone_type
Yes
String
Zone type
The value must be private, indicating private zones accessible only to hosts in specified VPCs will be created.
For details about creating a public zone, see section Creating a Public Zone.
email
No
String
Email address of the administrator managing the zone
The default value is the service email address.
ttl
No
Integer
Caching period of the SOA record set (in seconds)
The value ranges from 1 to 2147483647.
The default value is 300.
router
Yes
Object
Router information (VPC associated with the private zone)
For details, see Table 2.
tags
No
Array of object
Resource tag. For details, see Table 3.
The value is left blank by default.
¶ Parameter
Mandatory
Type
Description
router_id
Yes
String
ID of the associated VPC
router_region
No
String
Region of the VPC
If it is left blank, the region of the project in the token takes effect by default.
¶ Parameter
Mandatory
Type
Description
key
Yes
String
Tag key
A key can contain up to 36 Unicode characters. key must be specified. It can contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), underscores (_), and at signs (@).
value
No
String
Tag value
Each value can contain up to 43 Unicode characters and can be an empty string.
Example request
Create a private zone named example.com.
POST https://{DNS_Endpoint}/v2/zones
{ "name": "example.com.", "description": "This is an example zone.", "zone_type": "private", "email": "xx@example.org", "router": { "router_id": "19664294-0bf6-4271-ad3a-94b8c79c6558", "router_region": "xx" }, "tags": [ { "key": "key1", "value": "value1" } ] }
Response¶
Parameter description
¶ Parameter
Type
Description
id
String
Zone ID, which is a UUID used to identify the zone
name
String
Zone name
description
String
Zone description
email
String
Email address of the administrator managing the zone
zone_type
String
Zone type, which can be public or private
ttl
Integer
TTL value of the SOA record set in the zone
The value ranges from 1 to 2147483647.
The default value is 300.
serial
Integer
Serial number in the SOA record set in a zone, which identifies the change on the primary DNS server
This parameter is not used currently.
status
String
Resource status
For details, see Resource Status.
record_num
Integer
Number of record sets in the zone
pool_id
String
Pool ID of the zone, which is assigned by the system
project_id
String
Project ID of the zone
created_at
String
Time when the zone was created
The UTC time format is used: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ.
updated_at
String
Time when the zone was updated
The UTC time format is used: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ.
links
Object
Link to the current resource or other related resources.
When a response is broken into pages, a next link is provided to retrieve all results.
For details, see Table 5.
masters
Array of strings
Master DNS servers, from which the slave servers get DNS information
This parameter is not used currently.
router
Object
Information about the VPC associated with the zone. For details, see Table 6.
¶ Parameter
Type
Description
self
String
Link to the current resource
next
String
Link to the next page
¶ Parameter
Type
Description
status
String
Resource status
For details, see Resource Status.
router_id
String
Router ID (VPC ID)
router_region
String
Region of the VPC
Example response
{ "id": "ff8080825b8fc86c015b94bc6f8712c3", "name": "example.com.", "description": "This is an example zone.", "email": "xx@example.com", "ttl": 300, "serial": 1, "masters": [], "status": "PENDING_CREATE", "links": { "self": "https://Endpoint/v2/zones/ff8080825b8fc86c015b94bc6f8712c3" }, "pool_id": "ff8080825ab738f4015ab7513298010e", "project_id": "e55c6f3dc4e34c9f86353b664ae0e70c", "zone_type": "private", "created_at": "2017-04-22T08:17:08.997", "updated_at": null, "record_num": 0, "router": { "status": "PENDING_CREATE", "router_id": "19664294-0bf6-4271-ad3a-94b8c79c6558", "router_region": "xx" } }
Returned Value¶
If a 2xx status code is returned, for example, 200, 202, or 204, the request is successful.
For details, see Status Code.