Getting information about a DNS zone
- In the management console
, select the folder containing your DNS zone. - Select Cloud DNS.
- In the left-hand panel, select
Zones. - Select the DNS zone you need.
- Go to the Overview tab.
- The Overview page will display detailed information about the DNS zone.
If you do not have the Yandex Cloud command line interface yet, install and initialize it.
The folder specified in the CLI profile is used by default. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name
or --folder-id
parameter.
To find out the name or unique ID of a DNS zone, get a list of zones in the folder.
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View the description of the CLI command to get information about a DNS zone:
yc dns zone get --help
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Get information about a DNS zone by specifying its name or ID:
yc dns zone get <zone_name>
Result:
id: dns6oh57qm9n******** folder_id: f01derqpemb4******** created_at: "2023-11-02T08:34:58.493Z" name: example.com. zone: example-zone-name public_visibility: {}
Terraform
For more information about the provider resources, see the documentation on the Terraform
If you change the configuration files, Terraform automatically detects which part of your configuration is already deployed, and what should be added or removed.
If you don't have Terraform, install it and configure the Yandex Cloud provider.
To get information about a DNS zone using Terraform:
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Add the
data
andoutput
sections to the Terraform configuration file:data "yandex_dns_zone" "my_zone" { dns_zone_id = "<DNS_zone_ID>" } output "public" { value = data.yandex_dns_zone.my_zone.public }
Where:
data "yandex_dns_zone"
: Description of the DNS zone as a data source:dns_zone_id
: DNS zone ID.
output "zone"
: Output variable that contains information about the DNS zone type:value
: Returned value.
You can replace
public
with any other parameter to get the information you need. For more information about theyandex_dns_zone
data source parameters, see the relevant provider documentation . -
Create resources:
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In the terminal, change to the folder where you edited the configuration file.
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Make sure the configuration file is correct using the command:
terraform validate
If the configuration is correct, the following message is returned:
Success! The configuration is valid.
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Run the command:
terraform plan
The terminal will display a list of resources with parameters. No changes are made at this step. If the configuration contains errors, Terraform will point them out.
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Apply the configuration changes:
terraform apply
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Confirm the changes: type
yes
in the terminal and press Enter.
Terraform will create the required resources and display the output variable values in the terminal. To check the results, run:
terraform output
Result:
public = false
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To get detailed information about a DNS zone, use the get REST API method for the DnsZone resource or the DnsZoneService/Get gRPC API call.