What's New

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Simplified configuration for creating public zones and adding record sets

Parameters that are not frequently used are hidden when you create public zones or add record sets.

• Creating public zones: The Tag and Description parameters are hidden.

• Adding record sets: The Alias, Weight, Tag, and Descriptions parameters are hidden.

Commercial use

Creating a Public Zone

Adding Record Sets

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Exporting public zones, private zones, and PTR records

All or selected public zones, private zones, or PTR records can be exported to an XLSX file.

Commercial use

Exporting Public Zones

Exporting Private Zones

Exporting PTR Records

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DNSSEC

DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) provides digital signatures to ensure data integrity and authenticity of DNS requests and responses and to defend against common attacks such as DNS spoofing. This prevents you from being redirected to unexpected addresses and protects your core services.

Commercial use

DNSSEC

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Access Logging

DNS logs the requests sent to resolvers, such as the time when a request was sent, client IP address, request path, and server response.

Commercial use

Access Logging

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DNS Resolver

With Huawei Cloud DNS resolvers, on-premises servers and cloud servers can easily communicate with each other in hybrid cloud scenarios.

On-premises servers access a cloud service domain name. For this to work, 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 the inbound endpoint.

Cloud servers access an on-premises domain name. For this to work, you need to create an outbound endpoint, configure endpoint rules, and specify the on-premises domain name to be accessed and the IP addresses of on-premises DNS servers. Huawei Cloud private DNS then forwards DNS queries for the on-premises domain name to the on-premises DNS servers based on the endpoint rules.

Open beta testing

What Is a Resolver?

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Sharing a Private Zone

DNS can work with Resource Access Manager (RAM) to allow you to share your private zones to other accounts if you are the owner of these private zones. When a resource owner shares resources with your account and you accept the resource sharing invitation, you can access and use the shared resources as if they were your own resources in your own account. Resource owners can select different permissions based on the principle of least privilege (PoLP) and service requirements, and principals can only access resources within their permissions. This improves resource security.

Commercial use

Sharing a Private Zone

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Integration with RMS for resource management

DNS works with Resource Management Service (RMS) to allow you to evaluate and manage your DNS resources on the cloud platform.

Commercial use

Getting Started with RMS

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Public domain name resolution in Brazil and Mexico

Authoritative DNS servers are available in the LA-Mexico City1 and LA-Sao Paulo1 regions to provide public domain name resolution for users.

Commercial use

Public Zone

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Weighted routing

The DNS service allows you to set weights to record sets to route the requests to different servers based on the specified weights.

Commercial use

Configuring Weighted Routing

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Support for anycast in regions outside China

To enable users to access the nearest DNS server and resolve domain names with the lowest latency, HUAWEI CLOUD has deployed DNS servers in multiple AZs around the world and support anycast in some regions.

Commercial use

What Addresses Does HUAWEI CLOUD DNS Use for Domain Resolution?

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Disabling or enabling a public zone

The DNS service allows you to enable or disable public zones.

Commercial use

Managing Public Zones

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Importing or Exporting record sets

If you want to transfer a domain name to or from DNS, you can import or export the record sets configured for this domain in batches.

This feature is supported for both public and private zones.

Commercial use

Importing Record Sets

Exporting Record Sets

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Multi-carrier routing and geolocation routing

With configurable resolution lines, you can specify that the DNS server returns different resolution results for the same domain name based on the networks or geographic locations of visitors' IP addresses.

Commercial use

Intelligent Resolution

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Managing record sets

The DNS service allows you to centrally manage record sets in both public and private zones.

You can quickly search for record sets by its status, type, name, value, tag, or ID.

Commercial use

Searching for a Record Set

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Retrieving a domain name

The DNS service allows you to retrieve a domain name that you have permission to administer.

The DNS service does not verify the ownership of domain names. Any user can create public zones for their domain names in the DNS service. If the system displays a message indicating that a public zone has been created by another user when you are creating a public zone for your domain name, you can retrieve the domain name.

Commercial use

Regaining a Domain Name

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Private domain resolution

A private zone contains information about how to map a domain name (such as ecs.com) and its subdomains used within one or more VPCs to private IP addresses (such as 192.168.1.1). With private domain names, your ECSs can communicate with each other within the VPCs without having to connect to the Internet. You can also access cloud services, such as OBS and SMN, over a private network.

Applicable scenarios

• Managing ECS host names
• Replacing an ECS without service interruption
• Accessing cloud resources

Commercial use

Private Zone

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Reverse resolution

Reverse resolution means to obtain a domain name based on an IP address. This is typically used to affirm the credibility of email servers.

Commercial use

Reverse Resolution

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Public domain resolution

A public zone contains information about how a domain name and its subdomains are translated into IP addresses for routing traffic over the Internet. This allows end users to access your website or application over the Internet using your domain name.

Commercial use

Public Zone