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Hurricane Electric DNS

Hurricane Electric API credentials setup: set up Account username + password (+ TOTP) for Hurricane Electric DNS DNS and review the access DNSMigrator uses

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Hurricane Electric API credentials permissions

Credential type
Account username + password (+ TOTP)
Preview access
Hurricane Electric has no API keys or scoped roles; access means full control of the whole account.
Apply access
Hurricane Electric has no API keys or scoped roles; access means full control of the whole account.
API endpoint
DNSMigrator uses the provider's fixed API endpoint.

DNSControl id

creds.json TYPE
{
  "TYPE": "HEDNS"
}

Create credentials

No credential workflow is published yet.

Use the official links below and grant only the access listed above. DNSMigrator checks the connection before it reads or writes a zone.

Capabilities

Capability verification is in progress.

The catalog values below are used by the translation engine, but this provider is not included in indexable migration pages until they are verified.
Create zones
Yes
List zones
Yes
DNSSEC
Not available through this connection
Minimum TTL
300 seconds
Apex CNAME
No
Read only
No

Record types

  • A
  • AAAA
  • CNAME
  • MX
  • TXT
  • NS
  • SRV
  • CAA
  • ALIAS
  • PTR
  • HTTPS
  • SVCB
  • LOC
  • NAPTR
  • RP
  • SSHFP
  • SPF

Caveats

  • Hurricane Electric has no official DNS API. Tools such as DNSControl drive the dns.he.net web interface with the account password, which DNSMigrator does not do yet.
  • Dynamic DNS records keep their own update keys, which can't be read back and must be set again after a move.