Reverting changes made to Traffic Director prior to publication using the API requires specific syntax depending on whether you are using REST or SOAP. Use this table to find the syntax for your command.
Understanding How The API Works
NOTE: Total number of records in a single Response Pool may not be more than 255.
REST Syntax
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/REST/DSF/ PUT — Clears the changeset for this service and reverts all non-published changes to their original state.
HTTP Action — PUT
URIs — https://api.dynect.net/REST/DSF/<service_id>/ |
Arguments:
- boolean
revert — Required. Indicates whether or not to revert the changes to the indicated Traffic Director service.
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- hash
data
- string
service_id — Identifier for the Traffic Director service.
- string
label Name of the Traffic Director service.
- string
active — Indicates whether or not the service is active.
Valid values:
Y if the service is active.
N if the service is inactive.
- string
ttl — The default TTL to be used across the service.
- string
link_id — ID representing the link.
- string
active — Indicates whether or not the link is active.
- array
notifiers — List of notifiers associated with the service.
- string
notifier_id — ID of the Notifier object.
- string
label — label of the notifier.
- array
recipients — List of recipients for this notifier.
- string
active — Indicates whether or not the Notifier is active.
- array
rulesets — A list of Rulesets that are defined for the service:
- string
dsf_ruleset_id — Identifier for the Ruleset.
- string
label — A label for the Ruleset.
- string
criteria_type — A set of rules describing what traffic is applied to the response pool.
Valid values:
always – Always serve
geoip – Use the location of the requestor’s IP address to determine where to send the traffic.
- string
criteria — Dependent on criteria_type.
Valid values:
- hash
geoip — A hash where each element contains a list of ISO-3166 two letter codes to represent the names of countries and their subdivisions, one of the predefined groups, or one of the legacy regions.
- array
country — A list of ISO-3166 two letter codes representing Countries
- array
region — A list of ISO-3166 two letter codes representing Regions
- array
province — A list of ISO-3166 two letter codes representing Provinces
- string
ordering — Index of the Ruleset.
- string
eligible — Indicates whether or not the Ruleset can be served.
- string
pending_change — Indicates whether or not the response has any changes pending.
- array
response_pools — A list of Response Pools that are contained within the Ruleset.
- string
dsf_response_pool_id — Identifier for the Response Pool.
- string
label — A label for the Response Pool.
- string
automation — Defines how eligible can be changed in response to monitoring.
Valid values:
auto — Sets the serve_mode field to ‘Monitor & Obey’. Default.
auto_down — Sets the serve_mode field to ‘Monitor & Remove’.
manual — Couples with eligible value to determine other serve_mode field values.
- string
core_set_count — If fewer than this number of core record sets are eligible, status will be set to fail. Defaults to 0.
- string
eligible — Indicates whether or not the Response Pool can be served.
- string
pending_change — Indicates whether or not the response has any changes pending.
- array
rs_chains — A list of Record Set Failover Chains that are defined for this Response Pool.
- string
dsf_record_set_failover_chain_id — Identifier for the Record Set Failover Chain.
- string
dsf_response_pool_id — Identifier for the Response Pool where the Record Set Failover Chain belongs.
- string
service_id — Identifier for the Traffic Director service where the Record Set Failover Chain belongs.
- string
label — A label for the Record Set Failover Chain.
- string
core — If True, identifies the Record Set Failover Chain as a core Record Chain.
- array
record_sets — A non-detailed list of Record Sets contained in the chain.
- string
service_id — Identifier for the Traffic Director Service.
- string
dsf_record_set_id — Identifier for the Record Set.
- string
dsf_monitor_id — The id of the monitoring object.
- string
label — A label for the Record Set.
- string
rdata_class — The type of rdata represented by this Record Set.
- string
ttl — Default TTL used for Records within this Record Set.
- string
ttl_derived — The actual TTL used for Records within this Record Set.
- string
automation — Defines how eligible can be changed in response to monitoring.
Valid values:
auto — Sets the serve_mode field to ‘Monitor & Obey’. Default.
auto_down — Sets the serve_mode field to ‘Monitor & Remove’.
manual — Couples with eligible value to determine other serve_mode field values.
- string
serve_count — How many Records to serve out of this Record Set.
- string
fail_count — The number of records that must not be okay before the Record Set becomes ineligible.
- string
trouble_count — The number of records that must not be okay before the Record Set becomes in trouble.
- string
eligible — Indicates whether or not the Record Set can be served.
- string
pending_change — Indicates whether or not the response has any changes pending.
- array
records — A list of Records contained within the Record Set.
- string
dsf_record_id — Identifier for the Record.
- string
service_id — The id of a Traffic Director service.
- string
label — A label for the Record.
- string
master_line — Master line for the Record.
- string
weight — Weight for the Record. Defaults to 1.
Valid values for A or AAAA records: 1 – 15.
Valid values for CNAME records: 1 – 255.
- string
automation — Defines how eligible can be changed in response to monitoring.
Valid values:
auto — Sets the serve_mode field to ‘Monitor & Obey’. Default.
auto_down — Sets the serve_mode field to ‘Monitor & Remove’.
manual — Couples with eligible value to determine other serve_mode field values.
- array
endpoints — The individual address(es) for a record. Multiple addresses are added as an array [ addr, addr ]. Endpoints are monitored if automation is set to auto or auto_down and there is a monitor attached to the service.
- array
endpoint_up_count — Number of endpoints that must be up for the Record status to be ‘up’.
- string
eligible — Indicates whether or not the Record can be served.
- string
rdata_class — The type of rdata represented by this Record Set.
- string
ttl — Default TTL used for Records within this Record Set.
- hash
rdata — RData that comprises the Record.
- string
type — The type of rdata.
- string
ttl — Default TTL used for Record.
- hash
data
- hash
a_rdata — A record rdata.
- string
address — IPv4 Address.
- hash
aaa_rdata — AAAA record rdata.
- string
address — IPv6 Address.
- hash
cert_rdata — CERT record rdata
- string
format — Must use the numeric value for Certificate Type. Example: 3
- string
tag — Identifies which private key was used to sign the public-key certificate. Must use a numeric value for the Key Tag.
- string
algorithm — The public-key algorithm number used to generate the certificate. Example: if RSA/SHA 1 was used, its algorithm # is 5, which would be placed in this field.
- string
certificate — Enter the actual public-key certificate.
- hash
cname_rdata — CNAME record rdata.
- hash
dhcid_rdata — DHCID record rdata.
- string
digest — Base-64 encoded digest of DHCP data.
- hash
dname_rdata — DNAME record rdata.
- string
dname — Target hostname.
- hash
dnskey_rdata — DNSKEY record rdata.
- string
algorithm — Which public-key encryption algorithm is to sign this zone. A value of 5 is for the algorithm RSA/SHA-1, which is considered mandatory.
- string
flags — Numeric value that states that this DNSKEY is the zone’s key.
- string
protocol — Always set to 3 (DNSSEC).
- string
public_key — Enter the DNSSEC public key from your current DNSSEC signed zone.
- hash
ds_rdata — DS record rdata.
- string
algorithm — The algorithm number used by the DNSKEY resource record.
- string
digest — The digest of the DNSKEY resource record this DS refers to.
- string
digtype — Identifies the algorithm used to construct the digest .
- string
keytag — The key tag of the DNSKEY resource record.
- hash
ipseckey_rdata — IPSECKEY record rdata.
- string
precedence — Similar to the preference value in MX records. IF multiple IPSECKEYs exist on a node, the lower value (10) takes precedence over the higher value (20).
- string
gatetype — Value that states what type of gateway is used, if any.
- string
algorithm — Identifies the public key’s cryptographic algorithm and the format of the public key field.
- string
gateway — The gateway used to create the IPsec tunnel. Based on the Gateway type.
- string
public_key — Base 64 encoding of the public key.
- hash
key_rdata — KEY record rdata.
- string
algorithm — Numeric value for the algorithm used RSA/MD5, the recommended algorithm, is 1.
- string
flags
- string
protocol — Numeric value for the protocol used 1= TLS, 2=Email, 3=DNSSEC, 4= IPsec.
- string
public_key — The public key.
- hash
kx_rdata — KX record rdata.
- string
preference — Similar to the MX record’s preference. Lower value (10) takes precedence over higher value (20) if multiple KX records exist on the same node.
- string
exchange — The hostname that will act as the key exchanger. Must have a CNAME record and either an A record or an AAAA record.
- hash
loc_rdata — LOC record rdata.
- string
altitude — Measured in meters above sea level. Example: -44m
- string
horiz_pre — Precision in meters. Example: 30m
- string
latitude — Measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds. Example: 42 21 54 N
- string
longitude — Measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds. Example: 71 06 18 W
- string
size — Size in meters. Example: 10m
- string
version
- string
vert_pre — Precision in meters. Example 10m
- hash
mx_rdata — MX record rdata.
- string
exchange — Hostname of the server responsible for accepting mail messages in the zone.
- string
preference — The MX record with the lowest preference number is used first, then the record with the next highest number.
- hash
naptr_rdata — NAPTR record rdata.
- string
order — Similar to the MX Record’s preference value or SRV record’s priority value. The lowest value is used first, highest value used last.
- string
preference — If one or more NAPTR records have the same value for ORDER, the value of preference is used to decide which record is used first. Lowest number goes first.
- string
flags
- string
services — Always starts with e2u+ then the string that defines the type and optionally the subtype of the URI where this NAPTR points.
- string
regexp — Enter regular expression for this NAPTR record.
- string
replacement — Specifies the next domain name to look up if this is a non-terminal NAPTR.
- hash
ns_rdata — NS record rdata.
- string
nsdname — Hostname of the authoritative Nameserver for this zone.
- hash
nsap_rdata — NSAP record rdata.
- string
nsap — Hex-encoded NSAP identifier.
- hash
ptr_rdata — PTR record rdata.
- string
ptrdname — Hostname where the IP address should be directed.
- hash
px_rdata — PX record rdata.
- string
preference — numeric preference.
- string
map822 — mail hostname.
- string
mapx400 — X.400 address mapping.
- hash
rp_rdata — RP record rdata.
- string
mbox — Email address of the Responsible Person with the @ symbol replaced with a dot ‘.’.
- string
txtdname — Hostname where there is a TXT record with more information.
- hash
soa_rdata — SOA record rdata.
- integer
expire — Set to 1 week by default. The time, in seconds, that a secondary server will keep trying to complete a zone transfer.
- integer
minimum — Set to 1 minute by default.
- string
mname
- integer
refresh — Set to 1 hour by default. The time, in seconds, a secondary DNS server waits before querying the primary DNS Server’s SOA record to check for changes.
- integer
retry — Set to 10 minutes by default. The time, in seconds, a secondary DNS Server waits before retrying a failed zone transfer.
- string
rname
- integer
serial — Value increments when any resource record in the zone file is updated.
- hash
spf_rdata — SPF record rdata.
- string
txtdata — Free text box.
- hash
srv_rdata — SRV record rdata.
- string
port — Port number where the service is running.
- string
priority — Numeric value for priority usage. Lower value takes precedence where two records of the same type exist on the zone/node.
- string
target — Domain name of a host where the service is running on the specified port .
- string
weight — Secondary prioritizing of records to serve. Records of equal priority should be served based on their weight.
- hash
sshfp_rdata — SSHFP record rdata.
- string
algorithm — The algorithm for SSH key.
- string
fptype — A type of fingerprint hash.
- string
fingerprint — The hex-encoded fingerprint.
- hash
txt_rdata — TXT record rdata.
- string
txtdata — Free text field.
- string
status — The status of the pool indicated by any attached monitors.
- string
response_time — Time it took to receive a response from the endpoints.
- string
torpidity — Performance indicator for the Record. Lower is better.
- string
last_monitored — Epoch timestamp of the last time the Record Set was monitored.
- string
pending_change — Indicates whether or not the object will be added, updated, or deleted.
- string
status — The status of the pool indicated by any attached monitors.
- string
last_monitored — Epoch timestamp of the last time the Record Set was monitored.
- string
pending_change — Indicates whether or not the response has any changes pending.
- array
rulesets — A list of Rulesets that contain this Response Pool.
- string
status — The status of the pool indicated by any attached monitors.
- string
last_monitored — Epoch timestamp of the last time the Response Pool was monitored.
- array
nodes — A list of zone and FQDN pairs to identify nodes that are attached to the Traffic Director service.
- string
zone — Name of the zone.
- string
fqdn — Fully qualified domain name of a node in the zone.
- string
pending_change — Indicates whether or not the service has any changes pending.
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SOAP Syntax
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RevertDSF — Clears the changeset for this service and reverts all non-published changes to their original state. |
Arguments:
- string
service_id — Required. ID of the Traffic Director service.
- string
token — Required. The session identifier.
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Response — Click for More Info
- hash
data
- string
service_id — Identifier for the Traffic Director service.
- string
label Name of the Traffic Director service.
- string
active — Indicates whether or not the service is active.
Valid values:
Y if the service is active.
N if the service is inactive.
- string
ttl — The default TTL to be used across the service.
- string
link_id — ID representing the link.
- string
active — Indicates whether or not the link is active.
- array
notifiers — List of notifiers associated with the service.
- string
notifier_id — ID of the Notifier object.
- string
label — label of the notifier.
- array
recipients — List of recipients for this notifier.
- string
active — Indicates whether or not the Notifier is active.
- array
rulesets — A list of Rulesets that are defined for the service:
- string
dsf_ruleset_id — Identifier for the Ruleset.
- string
label — A label for the Ruleset.
- string
criteria_type — A set of rules describing what traffic is applied to the response pool.
Valid values:
always – Always serve
geoip – Use the location of the requestor’s IP address to determine where to send the traffic.
- string
criteria — Dependent on criteria_type.
Valid values:
- hash
geoip — A hash where each element contains a list of ISO-3166 two letter codes to represent the names of countries and their subdivisions, one of the predefined groups, or one of the legacy regions.
- array
country — A list of ISO-3166 two letter codes representing Countries.
- array
region — A list of ISO-3166 two letter codes representing Regions.
- array
province — A list of ISO-3166 two letter codes representing Provinces.
- string
ordering — Index of the Ruleset.
- string
eligible — Indicates whether or not the Ruleset can be served.
- string
pending_change — Indicates whether or not the response has any changes pending.
- array
response_pools — A list of Response Pools that are contained within the DSF Ruleset.
- string
dsf_response_pool_id — Identifier for the Response Pool.
- string
label — A label for the Response Pool.
- string
automation — Defines how eligible can be changed in response to monitoring.
Valid values:
auto — Sets the serve_mode field to ‘Monitor & Obey’. Default.
auto_down — Sets the serve_mode field to ‘Monitor & Remove’.
manual — Couples with eligible value to determine other serve_mode field values.
- string
core_set_count — If fewer than this number of core record sets are eligible, status will be set to fail. Defaults to 0.
- string
eligible — Indicates whether or not the Response Pool can be served.
- string
pending_change — Indicates whether or not the response has any changes pending.
- array
rs_chains — A list of Record Set Failover Chains that are defined for this Response Pool.
- string
dsf_record_set_failover_chain_id — Identifier for the Record Set Failover Chain.
- string
dsf_response_pool_id — Identifier for the Response Pool where the Record Set Failover Chain belongs.
- string
service_id — Identifier for the Traffic Director service where the Record Set Failover Chain belongs.
- string
label — A label for the Record Set Failover Chain.
- string
core — If True, identifies the Record Set Failover Chain as a core Record Chain.
- array
record_sets — A non-detailed list of Record Sets contained in the chain.
- string
service_id — Identifier for the Traffic Director Service.
- string
dsf_record_set_id — Identifier for the Record Set.
- string
dsf_monitor_id — The id of the monitoring object.
- string
label — A label for the Record Set.
- string
rdata_class — The type of rdata represented by this Record Set.
- string
ttl — Default TTL used for DSF Records within this Record Set.
- string
ttl_derived — The actual TTL used for Records within this Record Set.
- string
automation — Defines how eligible can be changed in response to monitoring.
Valid values:
auto — Sets the serve_mode field to ‘Monitor & Obey’. Default.
auto_down — Sets the serve_mode field to ‘Monitor & Remove’.
manual — Couples with eligible value to determine other serve_mode field values.
- string
serve_count — How many Records to serve out of this Record Set.
- string
fail_count — The number of records that must not be okay before the Record Set becomes ineligible.
- string
trouble_count — The number of records that must not be okay before the Record Set becomes in trouble.
- string
eligible — Indicates whether or not the Record Set can be served.
- string
pending_change — Indicates whether or not the response has any changes pending.
- array
records — A list of Records contained within the Record Set.
- string
dsf_record_id — Identifier for the Record.
- string
service_id — The id of a Traffic Director service.
- string
label — A label for the Record.
- string
master_line — Master line for the Record.
- string
weight — Weight for the Record. Defaults to 1.
Valid values for A or AAAA records: 1 – 15.
Valid values for CNAME records: 1 – 255.
- string
automation — Defines how eligible can be changed in response to monitoring.
Valid values:
auto — Sets the serve_mode field to ‘Monitor & Obey’. Default.
auto_down — Sets the serve_mode field to ‘Monitor & Remove’.
manual — Couples with eligible value to determine other serve_mode field values.
- array
endpoints — The individual address(es) for a record. Multiple addresses are added as an array [ addr, addr ]. Endpoints are monitored if automation is set to auto or auto_down and there is a monitor attached to the service.
- array
endpoint_up_count — Number of endpoints that must be up for the Record status to be ‘up’.
- string
eligible — Indicates whether or not the Record can be served.
- string
rdata_class — The type of rdata represented by this Record Set.
- string
ttl — Default TTL used for Records within this Record Set.
- hash
rdata — RData that comprises the Record.
- string
type — The type of rdata.
- string
ttl — Default TTL used for Record.
- hash
data
- hash
a_rdata — A record rdata.
- string
address — IPv4 Address.
- hash
aaa_rdata — AAAA record rdata.
- string
address — IPv6 Address.
- hash
cert_rdata — CERT record rdata
- string
format — Must use the numeric value for Certificate Type. Example: 3
- string
tag — Identifies which private key was used to sign the public-key certificate. Must use a numeric value for the Key Tag.
- string
algorithm — The public-key algorithm number used to generate the certificate. Example: if RSA/SHA 1 was used, its algorithm # is 5, which would be placed in this field.
- string
certificate — Enter the actual public-key certificate.
- hash
cname_rdata — CNAME record rdata.
- hash
dhcid_rdata — DHCID record rdata.
- string
digest — Base-64 encoded digest of DHCP data.
- hash
dname_rdata — DNAME record rdata.
- string
dname — Target hostname.
- hash
dnskey_rdata — DNSKEY record rdata.
- string
algorithm — Which public-key encryption algorithm is to sign this zone. A value of 5 is for the algorithm RSA/SHA-1, which is considered mandatory.
- string
flags — Numeric value that states that this DNSKEY is the zone’s key.
- string
protocol — Always set to 3 (DNSSEC).
- string
public_key — Enter the DNSSEC public key from your current DNSSEC signed zone.
- hash
ds_rdata — DS record rdata.
- string
algorithm — The algorithm number used by the DNSKEY resource record.
- string
digest — The digest of the DNSKEY resource record this DS refers to.
- string
digtype — Identifies the algorithm used to construct the digest .
- string
keytag — The key tag of the DNSKEY resource record.
- hash
ipseckey_rdata — IPSECKEY record rdata.
- string
precedence — Similar to the preference value in MX records. IF multiple IPSECKEYs exist on a node, the lower value (10) takes precedence over the higher value (20).
- string
gatetype — Value that states what type of gateway is used, if any.
- string
algorithm — Identifies the public key’s cryptographic algorithm and the format of the public key field.
- string
gateway — The gateway used to create the IPsec tunnel. Based on the Gateway type.
- string
public_key — Base 64 encoding of the public key.
- hash
key_rdata — KEY record rdata.
- string
algorithm — Numeric value for the algorithm used RSA/MD5, the recommended algorithm, is 1.
- string
flags
- string
protocol — Numeric value for the protocol used 1= TLS, 2=Email, 3=DNSSEC, 4= IPsec.
- string
public_key — The public key.
- hash
kx_rdata — KX record rdata.
- string
preference — Similar to the MX record’s preference. Lower value (10) takes precedence over higher value (20) if multiple KX records exist on the same node.
- string
exchange — The hostname that will act as the key exchanger. Must have a CNAME record and either an A record or an AAAA record.
- hash
loc_rdata — LOC record rdata.
- string
altitude — Measured in meters above sea level. Example: -44m
- string
horiz_pre — Precision in meters. Example: 30m
- string
latitude — Measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds. Example: 42 21 54 N
- string
longitude — Measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds. Example: 71 06 18 W
- string
size — Size in meters. Example: 10m
- string
version
- string
vert_pre — Precision in meters. Example 10m
- hash
mx_rdata — MX record rdata.
- string
exchange — Hostname of the server responsible for accepting mail messages in the zone.
- string
preference — The MX record with the lowest preference number is used first, then the record with the next highest number.
- hash
naptr_rdata — NAPTR record rdata.
- string
order — Similar to the MX Record’s preference value or SRV record’s priority value. The lowest value is used first, highest value used last.
- string
preference — If one or more NAPTR records have the same value for ORDER, the value of preference is used to decide which record is used first. Lowest number goes first.
- string
flags
- string
services — Always starts with e2u+ then the string that defines the type and optionally the subtype of the URI where this NAPTR points.
- string
regexp — Enter regular expression for this NAPTR record.
- string
replacement — Specifies the next domain name to look up if this is a non-terminal NAPTR.
- hash
ns_rdata — NS record rdata.
- string
nsdname — Hostname of the authoritative Nameserver for this zone.
- hash
nsap_rdata — NSAP record rdata.
- string
nsap — Hex-encoded NSAP identifier.
- hash
ptr_rdata — PTR record rdata.
- string
ptrdname — Hostname where the IP address should be directed.
- hash
px_rdata — PX record rdata.
- string
preference — numeric preference.
- string
map822 — mail hostname.
- string
mapx400 — X.400 address mapping.
- hash
rp_rdata — RP record rdata.
- string
mbox — Email address of the Responsible Person with the @ symbol replaced with a dot ‘.’.
- string
txtdname — Hostname where there is a TXT record with more information.
- hash
soa_rdata — SOA record rdata.
- integer
expire — Set to 1 week by default. The time, in seconds, that a secondary server will keep trying to complete a zone transfer.
- integer
minimum — Set to 1 minute by default.
- string
mname
- integer
refresh — Set to 1 hour by default. The time, in seconds, a secondary DNS server waits before querying the primary DNS Server’s SOA record to check for changes.
- integer
retry — Set to 10 minutes by default. The time, in seconds, a secondary DNS Server waits before retrying a failed zone transfer.
- string
rname
- integer
serial — Value increments when any resource record in the zone file is updated.
- hash
spf_rdata — SPF record rdata.
- string
txtdata — Free text box.
- hash
srv_rdata — SRV record rdata.
- string
port — Port number where the service is running.
- string
priority — Numeric value for priority usage. Lower value takes precedence where two records of the same type exist on the zone/node.
- string
target — Domain name of a host where the service is running on the specified port .
- string
weight — Secondary prioritizing of records to serve. Records of equal priority should be served based on their weight.
- hash
sshfp_rdata — SSHFP record rdata.
- string
algorithm — algorithm for SSH key.
- string
fptype — type of fingerprint hash.
- string
fingerprint — hex-encoded fingerprint.
- hash
txt_rdata — TXT record rdata.
- string
txtdata — Free text field.
- string
status — The status of the pool indicated by any attached monitors.
- string
response_time — Time it took to receive a response from the endpoints.
- string
torpidity — Performance indicator for the Record. Lower is better.
- string
last_monitored — Epoch timestamp of the last time the Record Set was monitored.
- string
pending_change — Indicates whether or not the object will be added, updated, or deleted.
- string
status — The status of the pool indicated by any attached monitors.
- string
last_monitored — Epoch timestamp of the last time the Record Set was monitored.
- string
pending_change — Indicates whether or not the response has any changes pending.
- array
rulesets — A list of Rulesets that contain this Response Pool.
- string
status — The status of the pool indicated by any attached monitors.
- string
last_monitored — Epoch timestamp of the last time the Response Pool was monitored.
- array
nodes — A list of zone and FQDN pairs to identify nodes that are attached to the Traffic Director service.
- string
zone — Name of the zone.
- string
fqdn — Fully qualified domain name of a node in the zone.
- string
pending_change — Indicates whether or not the service has any changes pending.
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Example Request — Click for More Info
{
'service_id' => 'fv298...', # ID shortened...
'token' => 'asdlkfjasl23j4879afa'
}
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