- What's New
- Function Overview
- Service Overview
- Getting Started
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User Guide
- Public Zones
- Private Zones
- Record Sets
- PTR Records
- Intelligent Resolution
- Permissions Management
- Using CTS to Collect DNS Key Operations
- Quota Adjustment
- Change History
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API Reference
- Before You Start
- API Overview
- Calling APIs
- APIs
- Examples
- Permissions Policies and Supported Actions
- Appendix
- Best Practices
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FAQs
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DNS Overview
- Will I Be Billed for the DNS Service?
- How Many Zones, PTR Records, and Record Sets Can I Create?
- What Are Huawei Cloud DNS Servers?
- What Are Huawei Cloud Private DNS Server Addresses?
- What Are the Differences Between Public and Private Domain Names?
- Does DNS Support IPv6?
- Does DNS Support Explicit and Implicit URLs?
- Does DNS Support Dynamic Domain Name Resolution?
- Does DNS Support Wildcard Entries?
- What Is TTL?
- How Many Domain Name Levels Does DNS Support?
- How Are Zones Queried to Resolve a Domain Name?
- What Are the Priorities of Resolution Lines?
- Why Was the Email Address Format Changed in the SOA Record?
- What Is CAA?
- Why Should I Set Priority For an MX Record Set?
- Can DNS Point a Domain Name to a Specific Port?
- Invalid Domain Resolution
- Website Access Failures
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Public Zones
- Why Is a Message Indicating Conflict with an Existing Record Set Displayed When I Add a Record Set?
- How Do I Add Record Sets to Subdomains?
- Which IP Address Is Returned for the Domain Name If There Are Multiple IP Addresses in a Record Set?
- Can I Modify a Zone?
- Can DNS Translate a Domain Name to IP Addresses of On-premises Servers or Third-Party Servers?
- How Can Multiple Domain Names Be Linked to the Same Website?
- How Do I View and Change the DNS Servers of a Domain Name?
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Private Zones
- Why Is a Message Indicating Conflict with an Existing Record Set Displayed When I Add a Record Set?
- How Do I Change Default DNS Servers of an ECS to Huawei Cloud Private DNS Servers?
- How Can I Access an ECS Using Its Host Name?
- How Can I Map the Private IP Address of an ECS to a Domain Name?
- How Can I Use a Private Domain Name to Route Internet Traffic?
- Can I Use Private Domain Names Across Regions?
- Do I Need to Register Private Domain Names?
- Will a Deleted VPC Be Automatically Disassociated from the Private Zone?
- Are Private DNS Server Addresses the Same for All Users?
- What Are the Restrictions on Concurrent Private DNS Requests?
- Reverse Resolution
- Domain Transfer
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DNS Overview
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How Can I Use a Private Domain Name to Route Internet Traffic?
You can use a domain name to route traffic over the Internet or within VPCs.
Private DNS translates domain names in VPCs and forward DNS queries for public domain names to public DNS servers. The following describes how an ECS accesses a website using a domain name.
- If the domain name is a private domain name you configure on the DNS console or is the domain name of a cloud service, private DNS directly returns the mapped IP address.
- If the domain name has been registered with a domain name registrar, private DNS forwards the request to a public DNS server (for example, 114.114.114.114) and then returns the mapped IP address to the ECS.
If the public domain name is the same as the private domain name, requests to the public domain name will be handled by a private DNS server. If no IP address is found, private DNS will return a message indicating that no record was found and will not forward the request to the public DNS server.
To address this issue, you can use a subdomain of the public domain name as the private domain name and add record sets for the subdomain.
If the public domain name is example.com, create a private zone for subdomain 123.example.com and configure record sets for 123.example.com. In this way, requests to 123.example.com and all its subdomains (*.123.example.com) are processed by the private DNS server, and requests to example.com and other subdomains are forwarded to the public DNS server.
- If Huawei Cloud DNS is used for domain name resolution over public networks, you can create a public zone example.com and add record sets for it. For details, see Routing Internet Traffic to a Website.
- If you select another DNS service provider, see the help documentation of that provider.
- For details about how to configure a private zone for subdomain 123.example.com on the DNS console, see Routing Traffic Within VPCs.
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