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Subdomains operations#

Use the Subdomains operation to view information about the subdomains for a specified domain.

List subdomains#

GET /v1.0/{account}/domains/{domainId}/subdomains

Lists domains that are subdomains of the specified domain.

This call provides a list of all DNS domains that are subdomains for a specified domain. The resulting list is flat, and does not break the domains down hierarchically by subdomain.

Note

By default, returns a maximum of 100 items at a time if no limit is specified. To navigate the collection returned, the parameters limit and offset can be set in the URI (for example: limit=10 & offset=0 ). Refer to Paginated collections.

This table shows the possible response codes for this operation:

Response Code Name Description
200 Success Request succeeded.
400 Bad Request The request is missing one or more elements, or the values of some elements are invalid.
400 500 dnsFault The DNS service has experienced a fault.
401 Unauthorized You are not authorized to complete this operation. This error can occur if the request is submitted with an invalid authentication token.
404 Not Found The requested item was not found.
413 Over Limit The number of items returned is above the allowed limit.
503 Service Unavailable The service is not available.

Request#

This table shows the header parameters for the request:

Name Type Description
X-Auth-Token String Arbitrary character string generated by the authentication service in response to valid credentials.

This table shows the URI parameters for the request:

Name Type Description
{account} String The tenant ID.
{domainId} String ID for the domain.

This operation does not accept a request body.

Example List subdomains: XML request

GET https://dns.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0/1234/domains/2725233/subdomains
Accept: application/xml
X-Auth-Token: ea85e6ac-baff-4a6c-bf43-848020ea3812
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: 0

Example List subdomains: JSON request

GET https://dns.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0/1234/domains/2725233/subdomains
Accept: application/json
X-Auth-Token: ea85e6ac-baff-4a6c-bf43-848020ea3812
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 0

Response#

Example List subdomains: XML response

Status: 200 OK
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:54:21 GMT
X-API-VERSION: 1.0.17
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: 952

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<subdomains totalEntries="4" xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns="http://docs.rackspacecloud.com/dns/api/v1.0" xmlns:ns3="http://docs.rackspacecloud.com/dns/api/management/v1.0">
    <domain id="2725257" name="sub1.example.com" emailAddress="sample@rackspace.com" updated="2011-06-23T03:09:34Z" created="2011-06-23T03:09:33Z" comment="1st sample subdomain"/>
    <domain id="2725258" name="sub2.example.com" emailAddress="sample@rackspace.com" updated="2011-06-23T03:52:55Z" created="2011-06-23T03:52:55Z" comment="1st sample subdomain"/>
    <domain id="2725260" name="north.example.com" emailAddress="sample@rackspace.com" updated="2011-06-23T03:53:10Z" created="2011-06-23T03:53:09Z"/>
    <domain id="2725261" name="south.example.com" emailAddress="sample@rackspace.com" updated="2011-06-23T03:53:14Z" created="2011-06-23T03:53:14Z" comment="Final sample subdomain"/>
</subdomains>

Example List subdomains: JSON response

Status: 200 OK
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:54:21 GMT
X-API-VERSION: 1.0.17
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 966

{
  "domains" : [ {
    "name" : "sub1.example.com",
    "id" : 2725257,
    "comment" : "1st sample subdomain",
    "updated" : "2011-06-23T03:09:34.000+0000",
    "emailAddress" : "sample@rackspace.com",
    "created" : "2011-06-23T03:09:33.000+0000"
  }, {
    "name" : "sub2.example.com",
    "id" : 2725258,
    "comment" : "1st sample subdomain",
    "updated" : "2011-06-23T03:52:55.000+0000",
    "emailAddress" : "sample@rackspace.com",
    "created" : "2011-06-23T03:52:55.000+0000"
  }, {
    "name" : "north.example.com",
    "id" : 2725260,
    "updated" : "2011-06-23T03:53:10.000+0000",
    "emailAddress" : "sample@rackspace.com",
    "created" : "2011-06-23T03:53:09.000+0000"
  }, {
    "name" : "south.example.com",
    "id" : 2725261,
    "comment" : "Final sample subdomain",
    "updated" : "2011-06-23T03:53:14.000+0000",
    "emailAddress" : "sample@rackspace.com",
    "created" : "2011-06-23T03:53:14.000+0000"
  } ],
  "totalEntries" : 4
}