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IBM Cloud Classic (SoftLayer) DNS
Migrate DNS zones to or from IBM Cloud Classic (SoftLayer) DNS: what's supported, what access you need, and what changes for each destination.
See how a domain's records would land at SoftLayer. Free and read-only.
Access we need
- Credentials
- Classic infrastructure username + API key
- Permissions
- A classic infrastructure user with the Manage DNS permission for both preview and apply.
What SoftLayer 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
- 60s
Record types
- A
- AAAA
- CNAME
- MX
- TXT
- NS
- SRV
- PTR
- SPF
Good to know
- Domains must already exist in the IBM Cloud classic DNS console. We can't create them.
- Only A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR, SPF, SRV and TXT records are supported, so CAA records can't be migrated here.
- The minimum TTL is 60 seconds, and the DNSControl provider for SoftLayer is unmaintained, so treat this integration with extra care.