RcodeZero DNS Driver Documentation

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RcodeZero is a European Anycast DNS service provided by nic.at.

Supported Features:

  • more than 35 nodes

  • two seperate clouds with different ASes

  • full IPv4/IPv6 support

  • primary as well as secondary Nameservers

  • DNSSEC signing

  • ANAME(ALIAS) records

  • extensive statistics

  • management via web interface or a REST based API

  • DDoS mitigation

  • dedicated IP addresses (optional)

Read more at https://www.rcodezero.at/en or get the API documentation at https://my.rcodezero.at/api-doc

Instantiating the driver

Log into https://my.rcodezero.at/ and get your API key. Pass the API key, hostname and port to the driver constructor as shown below.

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

cls = get_driver(Provider.RCODEZERO)

APIKEY_RCODEZERO = "secrettoken"
API_HOST = "my.rcodezero.at"

cls = get_driver(Provider.RCODEZERO)
driver = cls(APIKEY_RCODEZERO, host=API_HOST)

API Docs

class libcloud.dns.drivers.rcodezero.RcodeZeroDNSDriver(key, secret=None, secure=True, host=None, port=None, api_version='v1', **kwargs)[source]
Parameters:

  • key (str) – API token to be used (required)

  • secret – Password to be used, ignored by RcodeZero

  • secure (bool) – Whether to use HTTPS (default) or HTTP.

  • host (str) – Hostname used for connections.

  • port (int) – Port used for connections.

  • api_version (str) – Specifies the API version to use. v1 is currently the only valid option (and default)

Returns:

None

connectionCls

alias of RcodeZeroConnection

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

Create a new record in a given, existing zone.

Parameters:

  • name (str) – name of the new record without the domain name, for example “www”.

  • zone (Zone) – Zone in which the requested record is created.

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

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

  • extra (dict) – Extra attributes: ‘ttl’, ‘disabled’

Return type:

Record

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

Create a new zone.

Parameters:

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

  • domain (Zone) – Zone type (‘master’ / ‘slave’). (required).

  • ttl (int) – TTL for new records. (optional). Ignored by RcodeZero. RcodeZero uses record specific TTLs.

  • extra (dict) – Extra attributes: ‘masters’ (for type=slave): extra={'masters': ['193.0.2.2','2001:db8::2']} sets the Master nameservers for a type=slave zone.

Return type:

Zone

delete_record(record)[source]

Delete a record in a given zone.

Parameters:

record (Record) – record to delete (record object)

Return type:

bool

delete_zone(zone)[source]

Delete a zone and all its records.

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]

Get a Zone object.

Parameters:

zone_id (str) – name of the zone, for example “example.com”.

Return type:

Zone

Raises:

ZoneDoesNotExistError: if zone could not be found.

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 all record objects for the given zone.

Parameters:

zone (Zone) – Zone object to list records for.

Returns:

list of Record

list_zones()[source]

Return a list of zone objects for this account.

Returns:

list of Zone

update_record(record, name, type, data, extra=None)[source]

Update an existing record.

Parameters:

  • record (Record) – Record object to update.

  • name (str) – name of the new record, for example “www”.

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

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

  • extra (dict) – Extra attributes: ‘ttl’,’disabled’ (optional)

Return type:

Record

update_zone(zone, domain, type=None, ttl=None, extra=None)[source]

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) – not supported. RcodeZero uses RRSet-specific TTLs

  • extra (dict) – Extra attributes: ‘masters’ (for type=slave) extra={'masters': ['193.0.2.2','2001:db8::2']} sets the Master nameserver addresses for a type=slave zone

Return type:

Zone