Traffic Director (API) | Dyn Help Center

Understanding How The API Works

As the newest service in the Advanced Traffic Management set, Traffic Director (API) provides the ability to control DNS responses on a granular/customized geographical rule set as well as monitoring DNS network end points.

This functionality is different from our Traffic Management, Real Time Traffic Management products, which use 7 pre-determined regional rulesets. GeoTM uses a granular list of geographic rules.

If this type of setup is of interest to you, please contact our helpful Concierge team to assist you with configuring this feature.

NOTE: Enabling some Dyn Managed DNS features may affect your monthly billing. Please check the terms and conditions of your contract before enabling any new Services.

Traffic Director: A Dyn Managed DNS Advanced feature. This new service allows Geo Traffic Management (classic) features in addition to monitoring the following protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, PING, SMTP, and TCP.

Use the command links in this table to access the API instructions for creating, managing, and removing items within the Traffic Director service.

NOTE: Total number of records in a single Response Pool may not be more than 255.

Traffic Director Service
Create Traffic Director (DSF)	Update Traffic Director (DSF)	Retrieve Traffic Director (DSF)	Delete Traffic Director (DSF)
Traffic Director Ruleset
Create Traffic Director (DSF) Ruleset	Update Traffic Director (DSF) Ruleset	Retrieve Traffic Director (DSF) Ruleset	Delete Traffic Director (DSF) Ruleset
Traffic Director Response Pool
CreateTraffic Director (DSF) Response Pool	Update Traffic Director (DSF) Response Pool	RetrieveTraffic Director (DSF) Response Pool	Delete Traffic Director (DSF) Response Pool
Traffic Director Record Set Failover Chain
Create Traffic Director (DSF) Record Set Failover Chain	Update Traffic Director (DSF) Record Set Failover Chain	Retrieving Traffic Director (DSF) Record Set Failover Chain	Delete Traffic Director (DSF) Record Set Failover Chain
Traffic Director Record Set
Create Traffic Director (DSF) Record Set	Update Traffic Director (DSF) Record Set	Retrieve Traffic Director (DSF) Record Set	Delete Traffic Director (DSF) Record Set
Traffic Director Record
Create Traffic Director (DSF) Record	Update Traffic Director (DSF) Record	Retrieve Traffic Director (DSF) Record	Delete Traffic Director (DSF) Record
To add nodes into the Traffic Director service, use the Update Traffic Director (DSF) API resource with the Nodes argument.

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