RcodeZero DNS Driver Documentation

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)

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)

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={})

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)

Delete a record in a given zone.

Parameters:record (Record) – record to delete (record object) Return type:bool

delete_zone(zone)

Delete a zone and all its records.

Parameters:zone (Zone) – zone to delete Return type:bool

export_zone_to_bind_format(zone)

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, file_path)

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)

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)

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)

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()

Return a generator to iterate over available zones.

Return type:generator of Zone

list_record_types()

Return a list of RecordType objects supported by the provider.

Returns:list of RecordType

list_records(zone)

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()

Return a list of zone objects for this account.

Returns:list of Zone

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

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)

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