DNS records for zones that you manage can be edited in Hydra. Record types that can be managed in Hydra include: A/AAAA, CNAME, MX, SRV and TXT. Creating an A/AAAA record will create the corresponding PTR record if you have permission to edit the associated subnet.
Note: authoritative DNS update schedule
DNS record updates made in Hydra are published to Oxford's authoritative nameservers periodically. In most cases this means that changes go live every 5 minutes.
To create a new record
- Visit the Hydra DNS records list (requires Oxford network or VPN)
- Select create under the search bar
- Enter the details for your new record
- Select Create
To edit, delete or clone an existing record
- Visit the Hydra DNS records list (requires Oxford network or VPN)
- Use the search bar to locate the record you want to change
- Select the record you want to change
- Select edit, delete or clone as appropriate
To bulk edit records
- Visit the Hydra DNS records list (requires Oxford network or VPN)
- Use the search bar to locate the records you want to change
- Select bulk edit to view the records in CSV format
- Amend the fields to change, prefix lines with hyphen ("-") to delete those records, or add lines leaving the record ID field empty to create new records
- Select submit to apply the changes. Note this is done as a single transaction: all changes have effect, or no changes take effect