Creating a Public Zone

Function

Create a public zone.

URI

POST /v2/zones

Request

  • Parameter description

    Table 1 Parameters in the request

    Parameter

    Mandatory

    Type

    Description

    name

    Yes

    String

    Domain name registered with the domain name registrar

    • If a domain name is ended with a dot (.), it cannot exceed 254 characters.

    • If a domain name is not ended with a dot (.), the domain name cannot exceed 253 characters.

    • Labels of a domain name are separated by dot (.). Each label cannot exceed 63 characters.

    A domain name is case insensitive. Uppercase letters will also be converted into lowercase letters.

    description

    No

    String

    Description of the zone, which cannot exceed 255 characters

    The value is left blank by default.

    zone_type

    No

    String

    Zone type, the value of which can be public or private

    • public: public zones accessible to hosts on the Internet

    • private: private zones accessible only to hosts in specified VPCs

    If the value is left blank, a public zone will be created. For details about creating a private zone, see section Creating a Private 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.

    tags

    No

    Array of object

    Resource tag. For details, see Table 2.

    The value is left blank by default.

    enterprise_project_id

    No

    String

    Specifies the ID of the enterprise project associated with the public zone. The value contains a maximum of 36 characters.

    The default value is 0.

    Table 2 Description of the tags field

    Parameter

    Mandatory

    Type

    Description

    key

    Yes

    String

    Tag key. The key contains 36 Unicode characters at most and cannot be blank. It can contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).

    value

    No

    String

    Tag value. Each value contains 43 Unicode characters at most and can be an empty string. It can contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).

  • Example request

    Create a public zone named example.com.

    POST https://{DNS_Endpoint}/v2/zones
    
    {
        "name": "example.com.",
        "description": "This is an example zone.",
        "zone_type": "public",
        "email": "xx@example.org",
        "ttl": 300,
        "tags": [
            {
              "key": "key1",
              "value": "value1"
            }
        ]
    }
    

Response

  • Parameter description

    Table 3 Parameters in the response

    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

    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 4.

    enterprise_project_id

    String

    ID of the enterprise project associated with the public zone. The value contains a maximum of 36 characters

    masters

    Array of strings

    Master DNS servers, from which the slave servers get DNS information

    This parameter is not used currently.

    Table 4 Description of the links field

    Parameter

    Type

    Description

    self

    String

    Link to the current resource

    next

    String

    Link to the next page

  • Example response

    {
        "id": "2c9eb155587194ec01587224c9f90149",
        "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/2c9eb155587194ec01587224c9f90149"
        },
        "pool_id": "00000000570e54ee01570e9939b20019",
        "project_id": "e55c6f3dc4e34c9f86353b664ae0e70c",
        "zone_type": "public",
        "created_at": "2016-11-17T11:56:03.439",
        "updated_at": null,
        "record_num": 0
    }
    

Returned Value

If the API call returns a code of 2xx, for example, 200, 202, or 204, the request is successful.

For details, see Status Code.