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Vultr DNS
Migrate DNS zones to or from Vultr DNS: what's supported, what access you need, and what changes for each destination.
See how a domain's records would land at Vultr. Free and read-only.
Access we need
- Credentials
- API key (personal access token)
- Permissions
- A user with the Manage DNS permission for both preview and apply. Vultr keys have no read-only mode.
What Vultr 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
- CAA
- SSHFP
Good to know
- Vultr API keys can't be limited to read-only, so use a dedicated user that only has the Manage DNS permission.
- If API Access Control is enabled, requests from IP addresses that aren't on the allow-list are rejected.
- TXT values can't contain double quotes.