Case Study - Global Reach, Local Touch: The Role of GeoDNS in eCommerce Expansion

Change zone's status

Description

Changes the status of the zone to active or inactive


Parameters

Name Data Type Status Description
auth-id or sub-auth-id or sub-auth-user Integer Required Authentication parameter
auth-password String Required Authentication parameter
domain-name String Required Domain name to change the status of
status Integer Optional Set to 1, to activate or to 0 to deactivate the zone. If omitted the status will be toggled.

 Return: Array with status and status description.


Errors

When the authenctication of API user is not correct, any API request will fail with the following status and statusDescription:

{"status":"Failed","statusDescription":"Invalid authentication, incorrect auth-id or auth-password."}

In case the credentials of API sub user are invalid, the following status and statusDescription will be returned:

{"status":"Failed","statusDescription":"Invalid authentication, incorrect sub-auth-id, sub-auth-user or auth-password."}

When invalid or non-existant domain-name is entered, the following status will be returned:

{"status":"Failed","statusDescription":"Missing domain-name"}

If invalid, or different than the suggested values (0 or 1), is entered for status parameter, the zone status will always be changed to "deactivated".

Note: These are example errors in JSON format.


 Example

URL JSON: https://api.cloudns.net/dns/change-status.json
POST/GET:
auth-id=0&auth-password=password&domain-name=domain.com&status=0
sub-auth-id=0&auth-password=password&domain-name=domain.com&status=0


URL XML: https://api.cloudns.net/dns/change-status.xml
POST/GET:
auth-id=0&auth-password=password&domain-name=domain.com&status=0
sub-auth-id=0&auth-password=password&domain-name=domain.com&status=0


Last modified: 2020-01-13
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