Deleting a resource record

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Yandex Cloud

Updated at July 14, 2025

To delete a resource record:

Management console

CLI

Terraform

API

In the management console, select the folder containing the DNS zone with the record you want to delete.
Select Cloud DNS.
Select the zone from the list.
Find the record you want to delete and click in its row.
In the menu that opens, click Delete.
In the window that opens, click Delete.

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

By default, the CLI uses the folder specified when creating the profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can also set a different folder for any specific command using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

See the description of the CLI command for deleting a record:
```
yc dns zone delete-records --help
```

Get a list of all zone records:

yc dns zone list-records --name <zone_name>

Delete the 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 the Yandex Cloud provider.

To delete a DNS resource record created with Terraform, do the following:

Open the Terraform configuration file and delete the fragment describing the DNS record.

Terraform DNS record description example

...
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"]
}
...

In the command line, navigate to the directory with the Terraform configuration file.
Check the configuration using this command:
```
terraform validate
```
If the configuration is correct, you will get this message:
```
Success! The configuration is valid.
```
Run this command:
```
terraform plan
```
You will see a detailed list of resources. No changes will be made at this step. If the configuration contains errors, Terraform will show them.
Apply the changes:
```
terraform apply
```
Type yes and press Enter to confirm changes.

You can check the updates in the management console or using 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.

Deleting a resource record

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