Example: Creating a Private Zone

Scenarios

If you want users to access your ECSs using private domain names so that the ECSs are not exposed to the Internet, you can create private zones in the DNS service and add A record sets for the zone.

This section describes how to create a private zone by calling the API in Creating a Private Zone and create a record set by calling the API in Creating a Record Set. For details about how to call APIs, see Calling APIs.

The token obtained from IAM is valid for only 24 hours. If you want to use one token for authentication, you can cache it to avoid frequently calling the IAM API.

Prerequisites

You have planned the region where you want to use private domain names and determined the endpoint for calling an API based on the region.

For details, see Endpoints.

Involved APIs

You need to obtain a token and add X-Auth-Token to the request header of API calls.

• IAM API for obtaining a token
• DNS API for creating a private zone
• DNS API for creating a record set

Procedure

1. Obtain the token by referring to Authentication.
2. Add Content-Type and X-Auth-Token in the request header.
3. Specify the following parameters in the request body:

   {
       "name": "example.com.",  // Zone name (mandatory, string)
       "description": "This is an example zone.", // Description of the zone (optional, string)
        "zone_type": "private", // Zone type (optional, string)
        "email": "xx@example.com" // Email address of the domain name administrator (optional, string)
       "router": {
           "router_id": "19664294-0bf6-4271-ad3a-94b8c79c6558",   // VPC ID (mandatory, string)
           "router_region": "xx"  // Region of the VPC (optional, string)
        }
   }

4. Send a request POST https://DNS endpoint/v2/zones.
5. Check the request response.
   

   • The request result may be successful or failed in the response.
   • If the request fails, an error code and error information are returned. For details, see Error Code.
   • For details about parameters in the response, see Creating a Private Zone.
   • For details about general return codes in the response, see Status Code.

   The following is an example response of a successful request:

   STATUS CODE 200

   {
       "id": "ff8080825b8fc86c015b94bc6f8712c3",
       "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/ff8080825b8fc86c015b94bc6f8712c3"
       },
       "pool_id": "ff8080825ab738f4015ab7513298010e",
       "project_id": "e55c6f3dc4e34c9f86353b664ae0e70c",
       "zone_type": "private",
       "created_at": "2017-04-22T08:17:08.997",
       "updated_at": null,
       "record_num": 0,
       "router": {
           "status": "PENDING_CREATE",
           "router_id": "19664294-0bf6-4271-ad3a-94b8c79c6558",
           "router_region": "xx"
       }
   }

6. Add Content-Type and X-Auth-Token in the request header.
7. Specify the following parameters in the request body:

   {
        "name": example.com.", // Record set name (mandatory, string)
       "description": "This is an example record set.", // Description of the record set (optional, string)
        "type": "A", // Record set type (mandatory, string)
       "ttl": 3600, // Caching duration of the record set (optional, integer)
       "records": [ 
           "192.168.10.1", 
           "192.168.10.2"
        ] // Values of the record set (mandatory, list<string>)
   }

8. Send a request POST https://DNS endpoint/v2/zones/{zone_id}/recordsets, where zone_id is the ID of the zone to which the record set is to be added.
9. Check the request response.

   STATUS CODE 200

   {
       "id": "2c9eb155587228570158722b6ac30007",
       "name": "example.com.",
       "description": "This is an example record set.",
       "type": "A",
       "ttl": 300,
       "records": [
           "192.168.10.1",
           "192.168.10.2"
       ],
       "status": "PENDING_CREATE",
       "links": {
           "self": "https://Endpoint/v2/zones/2c9eb155587194ec01587224c9f90149/recordsets/2c9eb155587228570158722b6ac30007"
       },
       "zone_id": "ff8080825b8fc86c015b94bc6f8712c3",
       "zone_name": "example.com.",
       "create_at": "2017-04-22T08:17:08.997",
       "update_at": null,
       "default": false,
       "project_id": "e55c6f3dc4e34c9f86353b664ae0e70c"
   }