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aws route53 — CLI for AWS Route53 - Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web servi

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Problem

How to use the aws route53 command: CLI for AWS Route53 - Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. More information: <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/route53/>.

Solution

aws route53 — CLI for AWS Route53 - Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. More information: <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/route53/>.

List all hosted zones, private and public:

aws route53 list-hosted-zones

Show all records in a zone:

aws route53 list-resource-record-sets --hosted-zone-id {{zone_id}}

Create a new, public zone using a request identifier to retry the operation safely:

aws route53 create-hosted-zone --name {{name}} --caller-reference {{request_identifier}}

Delete a zone (if the zone has non-defaults SOA and NS records the command will fail):

aws route53 delete-hosted-zone --id {{zone_id}}

Test DNS resolving by Amazon servers of a given zone:

aws route53 test-dns-answer --hosted-zone-id {{zone_id}} --record-name {{name}} --record-type {{type}}

Code Snippets

List all hosted zones, private and public

aws route53 list-hosted-zones

Show all records in a zone

aws route53 list-resource-record-sets --hosted-zone-id {{zone_id}}

Create a new, public zone using a request identifier to retry the operation safely

aws route53 create-hosted-zone --name {{name}} --caller-reference {{request_identifier}}

Delete a zone (if the zone has non-defaults SOA and NS records the command will fail)

aws route53 delete-hosted-zone --id {{zone_id}}

Test DNS resolving by Amazon servers of a given zone

aws route53 test-dns-answer --hosted-zone-id {{zone_id}} --record-name {{name}} --record-type {{type}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/aws route53

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