DNS Record Model

DNSRecord is the abstract base model shared by every record type (A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR, SRV, and TXT). The fields below are available on all of them:

• name (string): FQDN of the record, without TLD.
• zone (DNSZone): The DNS zone this record belongs to.
• ttl (integer): Time to live for the record. If unset, the zone TTL is used.
• enabled (boolean, default True): Indicates whether the record is eligible for publication by external integrations. This app does not publish records or enforce this setting.
• description (string): Description of the record.
• comment (string): Comment for the record.

enabled is defined on DNSModel, so it is available on both DNS Zone and every record type. The flags are independent: disabling a zone does not change the enabled value of the records it contains, and consumers of the data are responsible for deciding how to combine them.

Added in version 1.2.0 — DNS name length rules

When DNS validation is enabled (via the DNS_VALIDATION_LEVEL configuration), DNSRecord enforces the following DNS label and name length rules, as specified by RFC 1035 §3.1:

• Each label (the parts of the name separated by dots) must be no more than 63 bytes in wire format
• Empty labels (e.g., consecutive dots or leading/trailing dots) are not allowed
• The total length of the fully qualified DNS name (including the zone and all dots, in wire format) must not exceed 255 bytes

See the installation guide for configuration options.