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Deleting a resource record

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Updated at May 5, 2025

To delete a resource record:

Management console
CLI
Terraform
API
  1. In the management console, select the folder containing the DNS zone to delete a record from.
  2. Select Cloud DNS.
  3. Select the zone from the list.
  4. Click in the row next to the record to delete.
  5. In the menu that opens, click Delete.
  6. In the window that opens, click Delete.

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI yet, install and initialize it.

The folder specified when creating the CLI profile is used by default. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

  1. View a description of the CLI delete record command:

    yc dns zone delete-records --help
    
  2. Get a list of all records in the zone:

    yc dns zone list-records --name <zone_name>
    
  3. Delete a record:

    yc dns zone delete-records --name <zone_name> \
    --record "<domain_name> <TTL> <record_type> <value>"
    

If you do not have Terraform yet, install it and configure its Yandex Cloud provider.

To delete a record created using Terraform from the DNS zone:

  1. Open the Terraform configuration file and delete the fragment with the DNS record description.

    Example DNS record description in the Terraform configuration
    ...
    resource "yandex_dns_recordset" "rs1" {
      zone_id = yandex_dns_zone.zone1.id
      name    = "srv.example.com."
      type    = "A"
      ttl     = 200
      data    = ["10.1.0.1"]
    }
    ...
    
  2. In the command line, go to the directory with the Terraform configuration file.

  3. Check the configuration using this command:

    terraform validate
    

    If the configuration is correct, you will get this message:

    Success! The configuration is valid.
    
  4. Run this command:

    terraform plan
    

    The terminal will display a list of resources with parameters. No changes will be made at this step. If the configuration contains any errors, Terraform will point them out.

  5. Apply the configuration changes:

    terraform apply
    
  6. Confirm the changes: type yes into the terminal and press Enter.

    You can check the update using the management console or this CLI command:

    yc dns zone list-records <zone_name>
    

To delete a resource record, use the updateRecordSets REST API method for the DnsZone resource or the DnsZoneService/UpdateRecordSets gRPC API call.

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