Luadns DNS Driver Documentation

I was a happy user of a free DNS hosting service for many years, when this service was acquired by a competitor in august 2011, I was forced to move somewhere else.

While migrating my zone files I realized that I don’t like Bind syntax files neither administering tens of domains through a web interface. I’ve started to experiment on how it should look a perfect DNS service for me. I’ve realized that I would love to store my configuration files in a Git repository and I would need some configuration language for templating (Lua).

This is how LuaDNS was born on October, 2011.

Read more at: http://luadns.com/

Instantiating the driver

from libcloud.dns.types import Provider
from libcloud.dns.providers import get_driver

cls = get_driver(Provider.LUADNS)
driver = cls(user="user", key="api_key")

API Docs

class libcloud.dns.drivers.luadns.LuadnsDNSDriver(key: str, secret: str | None = None, secure: bool = True, host: str | None = None, port: int | None = None, **kwargs: Any | None)[source]
Parameters:

  • key (str) – API key or username to used (required)

  • secret (str) – Secret password to be used (required)

  • secure (bool) – Whether to use HTTPS or HTTP. Note: Some providers only support HTTPS, and it is on by default.

  • host (str) – Override hostname used for connections.

  • port (int) – Override port used for connections.

Returns:

None

connectionCls

alias of LuadnsDNSConnection

create_record(name, zone, type, data, extra=None)[source]

Create a record.

Parameters:

  • name (str) – Record name without the domain name (e.g. www). Note: If you want to create a record for a base domain name, you should specify empty string (‘’) for this argument.

  • zone (Zone) – Zone which the records will be created for.

  • type (RecordType) – DNS record type ( ‘A’, ‘AAAA’, ‘CNAME’, ‘MX’, ‘NS’, ‘PTR’, ‘SOA’, ‘SRV’, ‘TXT’).

  • data (str) – Data for the record (depends on the record type).

  • extra (dict) – (optional) Extra attributes (‘prio’, ‘ttl’).

Return type:

Record

create_zone(domain, type='master', ttl=None, extra=None)[source]

Create a new zone.

Parameters:

  • domain (str) – Zone domain name (e.g. example.com)

  • type (str) – Zone type (This is not really used. See API docs for extra parameters).

  • ttl (int) – TTL for new records. (This is not really used)

  • extra (dict) – Extra attributes (driver specific). (‘region_support’, ‘zone_data’)

Return type:

Zone

delete_record(record)[source]

Delete a record.

Parameters:

record (Record) – Record to delete.

Return type:

bool

delete_zone(zone)[source]

Delete a zone.

Note: This will delete all the records belonging to this zone.

Parameters:

zone (Zone) – Zone to delete.

Return type:

bool

export_zone_to_bind_format(zone: Zone) → str

Export Zone object to the BIND compatible format.

Parameters:

zone (Zone) – Zone to export.

Returns:

Zone data in BIND compatible format.

Return type:

str

export_zone_to_bind_zone_file(zone: Zone, file_path: str) → None

Export Zone object to the BIND compatible format and write result to a file.

Parameters:

  • zone (Zone) – Zone to export.

  • file_path (str) – File path where the output will be saved.

get_record(zone_id, record_id)[source]

Return a Record instance.

Parameters:

  • zone_id (str) – ID of the required zone

  • record_id (str) – ID of the required record

Return type:

Record

get_zone(zone_id)[source]

Return a Zone instance.

Parameters:

zone_id (str) – ID of the required zone

Return type:

Zone

iterate_records(zone: Zone) → Iterator[Record]

Return a generator to iterate over records for the provided zone.

Parameters:

zone (Zone) – Zone to list records for.

Return type:

generator of Record

iterate_zones() → Iterator[Zone]

Return a generator to iterate over available zones.

Return type:

generator of Zone

list_record_types() → List[RecordType]

Return a list of RecordType objects supported by the provider.

Returns:

list of RecordType

list_records(zone)[source]

Return a list of records for the provided zone.

Parameters:

zone (Zone) – Zone to list records for.

Returns:

list of Record

list_zones()[source]

Return a list of zones.

Returns:

list of Zone

update_record(record, name, type, data, extra=None)

Update an existing record.

Parameters:

  • record (Record) – Record to update.

  • name (str) – Record name without the domain name (e.g. www). Note: If you want to create a record for a base domain name, you should specify empty string (‘’) for this argument.

  • type (RecordType) – DNS record type (A, AAAA, …).

  • data (str) – Data for the record (depends on the record type).

  • extra (dict) – (optional) Extra attributes (driver specific).

Return type:

Record

update_zone(zone: Zone, domain: str | None, type: str | None = 'master', ttl: int | None = None, extra: dict | None = None) → Zone

Update an existing zone.

Parameters:

  • zone (Zone) – Zone to update.

  • domain (str) – Zone domain name (e.g. example.com)

  • type (str) – Zone type (master / slave).

  • ttl (int) – TTL for new records. (optional)

  • extra (dict) – Extra attributes (driver specific). (optional)

Return type:

Zone