Managing Inbound Endpoints

Scenarios

To enable on-premises servers to access a cloud service domain name, you need to create an inbound endpoint and configure forwarding rules on the on-premises DNS servers to forward the DNS queries for the cloud service domain name to the IP addresses specified in the inbound endpoint.

Creating an Inbound Endpoint

1. Go to the Resolvers page.
2. Click on the upper left and select the desired region and project.
3. In the upper right corner of the page, click Create Endpoint.
4. Configure the parameters based on Table 1.
   Figure 1 Creating an inbound endpoint
   

   Table 1 Parameters for creating an inbound endpoint

   Parameter	Description
   Endpoint Type	Type of the endpoint. There are two options: Inbound and Outbound. Select Inbound.
   Endpoint Name	Name of the endpoint. The name can: Contain only letters, digits, underscores (_), hyphens (-), and periods (.). Contain 1 to 64 characters.
   Region	Region where the inbound endpoint works.
   VPC	The VPC over which all inbound DNS queries are forwarded to cloud DNS servers. CAUTION: The VPC cannot be changed after an endpoint is created.
   Subnet	The subnet must have available IP addresses. Only IPv4 addresses are supported.
   IP Addresses	There are two options: Automatically assign or Specify. NOTE: To improve reliability, you need to specify at least two IP addresses, with each in a different AZ. You can optionally add more IP addresses.

5. Click OK.

Viewing an Inbound Endpoint

1. Go to the Resolvers page.
2. Click on the upper left and select the desired region and project.
3. On the Inbound Endpoints tab, locate the inbound endpoint you want to view.
4. Click the name of the inbound endpoint and view its details, such as basic configuration and IP addresses.

Modifying an Inbound Endpoint

1. Go to the Resolvers page.
2. Click on the upper left and select the desired region and project.
3. On the Inbound Endpoints tab, locate the inbound endpoint you want to modify.
4. Click Modify in the Operation column.

   You can change the endpoint name, and add or delete IP addresses.

   

   If only two IP addresses are configured, the IP addresses cannot be deleted.

Deleting an Inbound Endpoint

1. Go to the Resolvers page.
2. Click on the upper left and select the desired region and project.
3. On the Inbound Endpoints tab, locate the inbound endpoint you want to delete.
4. Click Delete in the Operation column.
5. Confirm the inbound endpoint and click OK.