| DNS |
| === |
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| .. note:: |
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| DNS API is available in Libcloud 0.6.0 and higher. |
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| DNS API allows you to manage DNS as A Service and services such as Zerigo DNS, |
| Rackspace Cloud DNS and others. |
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| Terminology |
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| * **Zone** - Represents a DNS zone or so called domain. |
| * **Record** - Represents a DNS record. Each record belongs to a Zone and has |
| a ``type`` and ``data`` attribute. Value of the ``data`` attribute depends on |
| the record type. |
| Some record types also require user to associate additional attributes with |
| them. Those additional attributes are stored in the ``extra`` attribute |
| (dictionary) on the record object. An example include ``MX`` and ``SRV`` |
| record type which also contains a priority. |
| * **RecordType** - Represents a DNS record type (``A``, ``AAAA``, ``MX``, |
| ``TXT``, ``SRV``, ``PTR``, ``NS``, etc.) |
| * **Zone Type** - Each zone has a ``type`` attribute. This attribute represents |
| a zone type. Type can either be ``master`` (also called primary) or ``slave`` |
| (also called secondary). |
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| Supported Providers |
| ------------------- |
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| For a list of supported providers see :doc:`supported providers page |
| </dns/supported_providers>`. |
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| Examples |
| -------- |
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| We have :doc:`examples of several common patterns </dns/examples>`. |
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| API Reference |
| ------------- |
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| There is a reference to :doc:`all the methods on the base dns driver |
| </dns/api/>`. |
