# ionoscloud\_dns\_record

Manages a [DNS Record](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/network-services/cloud-dns/overview).

> ⚠️ Only tokens are accepted for authorization in the **ionoscloud\_dns\_record** resource. Please ensure you are using tokens as other methods will not be valid.

## Example Usage

```hcl
resource "ionoscloud_dns_zone" "example" {
  name = "example.com"
  description = "description"
  enabled = false
}

resource "ionoscloud_dns_record" "recordexample" {
  zone_id = ionoscloud_dns_zone.example.id
  name = "recordexample"
  type = "CNAME"
  content = "1.2.3.4"
  ttl = 2000
  priority = 1024
  enabled = false
}
```

## Argument reference

* `name` - (Required)\[string] The name of the DNS Record. This property is immutable.
* `type` - (Required)\[string] The type of the DNS Record, can have one of these values: `A, AAAA, CNAME, ALIAS, MX, NS, SRV, TXT, CAA, SSHFP, TLSA, SMIMEA, DS, HTTPS, SVCB, OPENPGPKEY, CERT, URI, RP, LOC`. More details about types can be found [here](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/network-services/cloud-dns/cloud-dns-faq#what-types-of-dns-records-does-cloud-dns-support).
* `content` - (Required)\[string] The content of the DNS Record.
* `ttl` - (Optional)\[int] Time to live for the DNS Record. Default is `3600`.
* `priority` - (Optional)\[int] The priority for the DNS Record.
* `enabled` - (Optional)\[bool] Indicates if the DNS Record is active or not. Default is `true`.
* `zone_id` - (Required)\[string] The DNS Zone ID in which the DNS Record will be created.

## Import

In order to import a DNS Record, you can define an empty DNS Record resource in the plan:

```hcl
resource "ionoscloud_dns_record" "example" {
  
}
```

The resource can be imported using the `zone_id` and the `record_id`, for example:

```shell
terraform import ionoscloud_dns_record.example zone_id/record_id
```


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