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DNS zones.">Overview of DNS</a></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a class="newcontent-2022-09-12" href="https://apexapps.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=44785:265:0:::265:P265_CONTENT_ID:32173">Video: Overview</a></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="Tasks/consoleoverview.htm#dns-management-overview" title="The Overview page in the DNS Management section of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console provides links to details about service resources, steps to get started, and service health.">Use the DNS management overview page</a></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="../TrafficManagement/Concepts/overview.htm#overview" title="Traffic Management helps you guide traffic to endpoints based on various conditions, including endpoint health and the geographic origins of DNS requests.">Learn about traffic management</a></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="https://www.oracle.com/cloud/networking/dns/">Product page</a></div> </div><div class="uk-width-auto vl-lppanel vl-lppanel-t"> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><h4 class="vl-lppanel-lbl">Traffic Management</h4></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="../TrafficManagement/Concepts/overview.htm#scenarios">Traffic steering scenarios</a></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="../TrafficManagement/Concepts/overview.htm#managing-steering-policies" title="Traffic Management steering policies can account for health of answers to provide failover capabilities, provide the ability to load balance traffic across many resources, and account for the location where the query originated to provide a flexible and powerful mechanism to efficiently steer DNS traffic.">Create a traffic management policy</a></div> </div><div class="uk-width-auto vl-lppanel vl-lppanel-cm"> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><h4 class="vl-lppanel-lbl">Community</h4></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/">Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Blog</a></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="https://community.oracle.com/tech/apps-infra/categories/18430-cloud-infrastructure">Cloud infrastructure community forum</a></div> </div></div><div class="uk-width-1-3@s"><div class="uk-width-auto vl-lppanel vl-lppanel-bl"> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><h4 class="vl-lppanel-lbl">Public DNS</h4></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="Concepts/gettingstarted_topic-Creating_a_Zone.htm#top" title="Create a public domain name service (DNS) zone to hold the trusted DNS records that reside on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's nameservers.">Create a zone</a></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="Concepts/gettingstarted_topic-Delegating_Your_Zone.htm#top" title="Make an OCI public domain name service (DNS) zone accessible through the internet.">Delegate a zone</a></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="Tasks/record-add.htm#top" title="Add records that contain domain information to a domain name service (DNS) zone. Each record type contains information called record data (RDATA).">Add a DNS record</a></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="Tasks/reversedns.htm#reverse-dns" title="Reverse DNS maps an IP address to a hostname.">Set up reverse DNS</a></div> </div><div class="uk-width-auto vl-lppanel vl-lppanel-o"> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><h4 class="vl-lppanel-lbl">Manage DNS </h4></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="Tasks/managingdnszones.htm#managing-zones" title="The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DNS service lets you manage zones using the Console, CLI, or API.">Manage DNS zones</a></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="Reference/formattingzonefile.htm#format-zone-file" title="A domain name service (DNS) zone file is a text file that describes a DNS zone. The BIND file format is the industry preferred zone file format and has been widely adopted by DNS server software.">Format a zone file</a></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="/iaas/Content/DNS/Tasks/httpredirect.htm">Manage HTTP redirects</a></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="Tasks/tsig.htm#manage-tsig" title="Transaction signature (TSIG), also referred to as Secret Key Transaction Authentication, ensures that domain name service (DNS) packets originate from an authorized sender by using shared secret keys and one-way hashing to add a cryptographic signature to the DNS packets.">Manage TSIG keys</a></div> </div><div class="uk-width-auto vl-lppanel vl-lppanel-dt"> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><h4 class="vl-lppanel-lbl">Developer Tools</h4></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="/iaas/tools/oci-cli/latest/oci_cli_docs/cmdref/dns.html">DNS CLI</a></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="/iaas/api/#/en/dns/latest/">DNS API</a></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="/iaas/Content/API/Concepts/devcloudshellintro.htm">Cloud Shell</a></div> </div></div><div class="uk-width-1-3@s"><div class="uk-width-auto vl-lppanel vl-lppanel-s"> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><h4 class="vl-lppanel-lbl">Private DNS</h4></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="Tasks/privatedns.htm#private-dns" title="Create and manage private domain name system (DNS) zones.">Learn about private DNS</a></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="Tasks/create-private-zone.htm#top" title="Create a private domain name service (DNS) zone to manage records and hostname resolution for applications running within and between virtual cloud networks (VCNs), and on-premises or other private networks.">Create a private zone</a></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="Tasks/record-add.htm#top" title="Add records that contain domain information to a domain name service (DNS) zone. Each record type contains information called record data (RDATA).">Add a DNS record</a></div> </div><div class="uk-width-auto vl-lppanel vl-lppanel-pl"> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><h4 class="vl-lppanel-lbl">Reference</h4></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="Reference/supporteddnsresource.htm#supported-records" title="Learn about managing the many resource record types that the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DNS service supports.">Supported DNS resource record types</a></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="../TrafficManagement/Reference/trafficmanagementgeo.htm#geokeys" title="Lists the geokeys for the Traffic Management Steering Policy service.">Steering policy geokeys</a></div> </div><div class="uk-width-auto vl-lppanel vl-lppanel-ts"> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><h4 class="vl-lppanel-lbl">Troubleshooting</h4></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="Tasks/troubleshooting.htm#troubleshooting" title="Use troubleshooting information to identify and address common issues that can occur while working with DNS.">Troubleshoot private DNS</a></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="Tasks/testingdnsusingdig.htm#test-bind-dig" title="Use BIND'S Domain Information Groper (dig) command line tool to test against the delegation where the domain is hosted. Immediately see whether changes took place without accounting for the cache or TTL (Time to Live) that you have configured.">Test DNS using BIND's dig tool</a></div> </div><div class="uk-width-auto vl-lppanel vl-lppanel-sp"> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><h4 class="vl-lppanel-lbl">Support</h4></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="/iaas/Content/GSG/Tasks/contactingsupport.htm">Support Requests</a></div> <div class="vl-lpdiv"><a href="https://support.oracle.com">Create a service request</a></div> </div></div></div></div> </article></article> <div class="uk-hidden@l"> <div class="vl-cfs-mount vl-cfs-m" id="vl-cfs-mount-footer"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vl-floating-toc-container uk-visible@l" vl-floating-toc=""> <div class="vl-floating-toc-container-inner" vl-floating-toc-inner=""> <div id="content-toolbar-mount"></div> <div class="vl-cfs-mount vl-cfs-l" id="vl-cfs-mount"></div> <div class="uk-nav uk-nav-default" id="vl-dts-mount"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <footer class="vl-footer uk-section uk-section-secondary uk-section-small uk-text-xsmall uk-text-muted" data-trackas="dcoc-footer" vl-footer=""> <div class="uk-container uk-container-expand"> <ul class="uk-subnav uk-flex-center" uk-margin=""> <li class="legal"><span>Copyright 漏 2025, Oracle and/or its affiliates.</span></li> <li class="legal"><a href="https://www.oracle.com/corporate/index.html">About Oracle</a></li> <li class="legal"><a href="https://www.oracle.com/corporate/contact/index.html">Contact Us</a></li> <li class="legal"><a href="/iaas/Content/legalnotices.htm">Legal Notices</a></li> <li class="legal"><a href="https://www.oracle.com/legal/privacy/">Terms of Use & Privacy</a></li> <li class="legal"><a href="/iaas/Content/General/Reference/docconventions.htm">Document Conventions</a></li> <li id="teconsent"></li> </ul> </div> </footer> <script src="/iaas/build/front-end.js?c2d65a42e9a49cd2b7ef22e4334961ff72535a67455d1b08c56b04fb88251786"></script> </body> </html>