View Secondary Zone Details

Prerequisite: Only contract administrators, owners, and users with Access and manage DNS privilege can create and manage secondary zones. You can set user privileges in the DCD or using the API.

To view details of a given zone, follow these steps:

1. In the DCD, go to Menu > Network Services > Cloud DNS > Public zones tab.

2. Select Secondary Zones from the drop-down list.

Select secondary zones

Info: The Public zones section displays the zones if you have already created them. Select Show secondary zones to view secondary zones. This option only appears if you have created secondary zones but have not configured primary zones.

Show secondary zones

3. Select the zone to view its details. You can either click on the zone name or select Details & Records from the ACTIONS column.

Corresponding secondary zone selection

Result: The following information is displayed in the Details & Records window:

• Zone details

  • Zone name: Displays the name of the zone.
  • State: Indicates if the zone is Available.

    • Available: Indicates that the zone is available and healthy.
    • Provisioning: Indicates that the zone is being created or updated.
    • Destroying: Indicates that the zone is being deleted.
    • Failed: Indicates that an error occurred during creation, update or deletion.
  • UUID: Displays the UUID of the zone. Click Copy if you want to copy it to the clipboard.
  • Creation date: Displays the creation date and time of the zone.
  • Last modified: Displays the last modified date and time of the zone.
  • Primary IPs: Displays the primary IP addresses that is associated with the respective secondary zone.
  • Nameservers: Displays the nameservers of the zone. Click Copy if you want to copy it to the clipboard.
  • Description: Displays the description of the zone.
• Select

  • Start zone transfer to initiate manual zone transfer.
  • Edit zone to update zone details.
• The zone records transferred from the primary zone are listed. You can view the FQDN, record type, content, whether it is enabled or disabled, and view record details.

Zones Details