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Akamai Cloud (Linode) DNS
Migrate DNS zones to or from Akamai Cloud (Linode) DNS: what's supported, what access you need, and what changes for each destination.
See how a domain's records would land at Linode. Free and read-only.
Access we need
- Credentials
- Personal access token
- Permissions
- Domains: Read Only for the preview; Domains: Read/Write to apply.
What Linode supports
The same data the translation engine uses when it plans a migration.
- Create zones through the API
- List zones through the API
- Turn on DNSSEC through the API
- Apex CNAME (flattening)
- Apex ALIAS record
- Aliases to cloud resources
- CDN proxy on records
- Routing policies
- Minimum TTL
- 30s
Record types
- A
- AAAA
- CNAME
- MX
- TXT
- NS
- SRV
- CAA
- PTR
Good to know
- Linode only accepts fixed TTLs (30s, 2m, 5m, 1h, 2h, 4h, 8h, 16h, 1d, 2d, 4d, 1w, 2w, 4w). Other values are rounded up.
- CAA records always have flag 0 and only the issue, issuewild and iodef tags.
- Linode DNS Manager doesn't support DNSSEC, so turn it off at the registrar before switching nameservers.