The purpose of Traffic Director is to enable you to create DNS management at whatever level of granularity you want within your network and to monitor that network granularity.
Use the command links in this table to access the API instructions for configuring objects within the Traffic Director service.
NOTE: Total number of records in a single Response Pool may not be more than 255.
| Response Pools | contain the DNS values for query responses. |
| RuleSets | define the geographical regions for the DNS query responses and backup Response Pools in the event the first choice for the geographic region is unavailable. |
| Record Sets | groupings of one type of record in a Response Pool. |
| Records | individual host IP addresses sent in response to a DNS query. |
| Record Set Failover Chains | define the backup Record Set(s) for the Response Pool(s) in the event the first one is unavailable. |