Add record

Description

Add new record to domain zone.

Note: This function is available only for master zones. Works with reverse zones too.

Parameters

Name	Data Type	Status	Description
auth-id or sub-auth-id or sub-auth-user	Integer	Required	Authentication parameter
auth-password	String	Required	Authentication parameter
domain-name	String	Required	Domain name or reverse zone name you want to assign new record to
record-type	String	Required	A, AAAA, MX, CNAME, TXT, NS, SRV, WR, RP, SSHFP, ALIAS, CAA for domain names and NS and PTR for reversed zones
host	String	Required	host / subdomain
record	String	Required	Record you want to add. Example 10.10.10.10 or cname.cloudns.net
ttl	Integer	Required	Available TTL's: 60 = 1 minute 300 = 5 minutes 900 = 15 minutes 1800 = 30 minutes 3600 = 1 hour 21600 = 6 hours 43200 = 12 hours 86400 = 1 day 172800 = 2 days 259200 = 3 days 604800 = 1 week 1209600 = 2 weeks 2592000 = 1 month
priority	Integer	Optional	Priority for MX or SRV record
weight	Integer	Optional	Weight for SRV record
port	Integer	Optional	Port for SRV record
frame	Integer	Optional	0 or 1 for Web redirects to disable or enable frame
frame-title	String	Optional	Title if frame is enabled in Web redirects
frame-keywords	String	Optional	Keywords if frame is enabled in Web redirects
frame-description	String	Optional	Description if frame is enabled in Web redirects
save-path	Integer	Optional	0 or 1 for Web redirects
redirect-type	Integer	Optional	301 or 302 for Web redirects if frame is disabled
mail	Integer	Optional	E-mail address for RP records
txt	Integer	Optional	Domain name for TXT record used in RP records
algorithm	Integer	Optional	Algorithm used to create the SSHFP fingerprint. Required for SSHFP records only.
fptype	Integer	Optional	Type of the SSHFP algorithm. Required for SSHFP records only.
status	Integer	Optional	Set to 1 to create the record active or to 0 to create it inactive. If omitted the record will be created active.
geodns-location	Integer	Optional	ID of a GeoDNS location for A, AAAA, CNAME, NAPTR or SRV record. The GeoDNS locations can be obtained with List GeoDNS locations
caa_flag	Integer	Optional	0 - Non critical or 128 - Critical
caa_type	String	Optional	Type of CAA record. The available flags are issue, issuewild, iodef.
caa_value	String	Optional	If caa_type is issue, caa_value can be hostname or ";". If caa_type is issuewild, it can be hostname or ";". If caa_type is iodef, it can be "mailto:someemail@address.tld, http://example.tld or http://example.tld.

Response: Array with status and status description.

Errors

When the authenctication of API user is not correct, any API request will fail with the following status and statusDescription:

{"status":"Failed","statusDescription":"Invalid authentication, incorrect auth-id or auth-password."}

In case the credentials of API sub user are invalid, the following status and statusDescription will be returned:

{"status":"Failed","statusDescription":"Invalid authentication, incorrect sub-auth-id, sub-auth-user or auth-password."}

When invalid or non-existant domain-name is entered, the following status will be returned:

{"status":"Failed","statusDescription":"Missing domain-name"}

If invalid record type is entered for record-type parameter, the following status will be returned:

{"status":"Failed","statusDescription":"This record type is not supported."}

When TTL parameter is not from the suggested values or Integer, the API request will fail and the following status and statusDescription will be returned:

{"status":"Failed","statusDescription":"Invalid TTL. Choose from the list of the values we support."}

If invalid value is entered for record parameter, the API request will fail and a statusDescription message will be desplayed, based on the record type:

- when an invalid value is entered for records, that require domain name as record parameter:

{"status":"Failed","statusDescription":"This is not a domain name."}

- when an invalid value is entered for records, that require URL as record parameter:

{"status":"Failed","statusDescription":"The domain must be pointed to an URL as shown in the example."}

- when an invalid value is entered for records, that require IP address as record parameter:

{"status":"Failed","statusDescription":"This is not a valid IP address."}

Note: These are example errors in JSON format.

Example

URL JSON: https://api.cloudns.net/dns/add-record.json
Domain POST/GET:
auth-id=0&auth-password=password&domain-name=domain.com&record-type=A&host=www&record=10.10.10.10&ttl=3600
sub-auth-id=0&auth-password=password&domain-name=domain.com&record-type=A&host=www&record=10.10.10.10&ttl=3600
Reverse IPv4 POST/GET:
auth-id=0&auth-password=password&domain-name=1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa&record-type=PTR&host=@&record=domain.com&ttl=3600
sub-auth-id=0&auth-password=password&domain-name=1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa&record-type=PTR&host=@&record=domain.com&ttl=3600
Reverse IPv6 POST/GET:
auth-id=0&auth-password=password&domain-name=1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.0.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.0.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.0.1.2.ip6.arpa&record-type=PTR&host=@&record=domain.com&ttl=3600
sub-auth-id=0&auth-password=password&domain-name=1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.0.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.0.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.0.1.2.ip6.arpa&record-type=PTR&host=@&record=domain.com&ttl=3600

URL XML: https://api.cloudns.net/dns/add-record.xml
Domain POST/GET:
auth-id=0&auth-password=password&domain-name=domain.com&record-type=A&host=www&record=10.10.10.10&ttl=3600
sub-auth-id=0&auth-password=password&domain-name=domain.com&record-type=A&host=www&record=10.10.10.10&ttl=3600
Reverse IPv4 POST/GET:
auth-id=0&auth-password=password&domain-name=1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa&record-type=PTR&host=@&record=domain.com&ttl=3600
sub-auth-id=0&auth-password=password&domain-name=1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa&record-type=PTR&host=@&record=domain.com&ttl=3600
Reverse IPv6 POST/GET:
auth-id=0&auth-password=password&domain-name=1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.0.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.0.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.0.1.2.ip6.arpa&record-type=PTR&host=@&record=domain.com&ttl=3600
sub-auth-id=0&auth-password=password&domain-name=1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.0.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.0.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.0.1.2.ip6.arpa&record-type=PTR&host=@&record=domain.com&ttl=3600