Integrated DNS Providers

Table of Contents

• Supported Features
• Supported Integrated DNS Providers
• Supported Record Types
• Linking an Integrated DNS Provider to your account
• Unlinking an Integrated DNS Provider from your account

DNSimple supports the ability to synchronize, manage, and view zones that are deployed in other DNS providers external to DNSimple. DNSimple calls such providers “integrated DNS providers” and zones “integrated zones”.

Supported Features

• Import integrated zones: When you link an integrated DNS provider to your DNSimple account, zones hosted on that integrated DNS provider will be imported into DNSimple and listed on the Zones page.
• Manage integrated zone records: List, create, update, and delete integrated zone records from DNSimple using the Deployment Editor.
• Sync integrated zone records: Sync your zone records from the integrated zone to DNSimple, or from DNSimple to the integrated zone, with the Deployment Editor.

Supported Integrated DNS Providers

To manage integrated zones from DNSimple, you first have to link an integrated DNS provider to your DNSimple account.

DNSimple supports zone integration with the providers listed below.

• Amazon Route 53
• CoreDNS

Supported Record Types

Supported record types can be synced from/to DNSimple to/from an integrated DNS provider.
However, record fields not supported by DNSimple or the destination provider may be ignored. For example, record fields, like record notes and regional records information, may not be supported depending on the integrated DNS provider.

Linking an Integrated DNS Provider to your account

1. At DNSimple, go to the Account page, and click the Integrated Providers tab.
2. Under Add an integrated provider, click the link button for the integrated DNS provider you want to link to your DNSimple account.
3. Fill in any required paramaters for the integrated DNS provider configuration.
4. Fill in any necessary credentials for your account at the integrated DNS provider.
   
5. After successfully linking the integrated DNS provider, you will arrive back on the DNSimple Integrated Providers page with the integrated DNS provider newly linked to your account, listed under “Linked providers”. You can view the imported integrated zones from the Zones page, and manage and sync integrated zone records from the Deployment Editor.
   

Unlinking an Integrated DNS Provider from your account

1. At DNSimple, go to the Account page, and click the Integrated Providers tab.
2. Under Linked providers, click the Remove button for the integrated DNS provider you want to unlink from your DNSimple account. This will remove the ability to view and manage zones and their DNS records at the linked provider via DNSimple.