Creating a Private Zone

Scenarios

To start hosting your private domain name in Huawei Cloud DNS, you first need to create a private zone to map the private domain name to a private IP address within a VPC.

Prerequisites

• You have created a VPC.
• You have created an ECS in the VPC and planned a private domain name (example.com) for the ECS.

Procedure

1. Go to the Private Zones page.
2. Click in the upper left corner and select the desired region and project.
3. In the upper right corner of the page, click Create Private Zone.
4. Configure the parameters.
   Table 1 describes the parameters.

   Table 1 Parameters for creating a private zone

   Parameter	Description	Example
   Domain Name	Domain name you have planned for the ECS. You can enter a top-level domain that complies with the domain naming rules.	example.com
   Recursive resolution proxy for subdomains	If you select this option, when you query subdomains that are not configured in the zone namespace, DNS will forward the DNS queries to the Internet for recursive resolution and use the result from authoritative DNS servers.	-
   VPC	VPC to be associated with the private zone. NOTE: This VPC you choose must be the VPC where your servers (such as ECSs) are. Otherwise, the domain name cannot be resolved.	-
   Email	(Optional) Email address of the administrator managing the private zone. Recommended email address: HOSTMASTER@Domain name For more information about the email address, see Why Was the Email Address Format Changed in the SOA Record?	HOSTMASTER@example.com
   Enterprise Project	Enterprise project associated with the private zone. You can manage private zones by enterprise project. This parameter is available and mandatory only when Account Type is set to Enterprise Account. When configuring this parameter, note the following: If you do not manage zones by enterprise project, select the default enterprise project. If you manage zones by enterprise project, select an existing enterprise project. Before you configure this parameter, create an enterprise project.	default
   Tag	Optional. Identifier of the zone. Each tag contains a key and a value. You can add up to 20 tags to a zone. For details about tag key and value requirements, see Table 2.	example_key1 example_value1
   Description	(Optional) Supplementary information about the zone. The description can contain a maximum of 255 characters.	This is a zone example.

   Table 2 Tag key and value requirements

   Parameter	Requirements	Example
   Key	Cannot be left blank. Must be unique for each resource. Can contain a maximum of 128 characters. Cannot start or end with a space, or cannot start with _sys_. Only letters, digits, spaces, and the following special characters are allowed: _.:=+-@	example_key1
   Value	Can be left blank. Can contain a maximum of 255 characters. Only letters, digits, spaces, and the following special characters are allowed: _.:/=+-@	example_value1

5. Click OK.
6. Switch back to the Private Zones page.

   You can view the created private zone on the Private Zones page.

7. On the Private Zones page, locate the private zone you created and click the domain name.

   On the Record Sets tab, click Add Record Set.

   

   You can click the domain name to view SOA and NS record sets automatically added to the zone.

   • The SOA record set includes administrative information about your zone, as defined by the Domain Name System (DNS).
   • The NS record set defines the authoritative DNS servers for the domain name.

Follow-up Operations

After a private zone is created, you can perform the following operations:

• Add record sets for it. For details, see Adding Record Sets for a Private Zone.
• Modify or delete the private zone, or view its details. For details, see Managing Private Zones.