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Use the data source to retrieve the following information for an A record, which is managed by a NIOS server:

To get retrieve information about an A record, specify a combination of, the DNS view, IPv4 address that the record points to, and the FQDN that corresponds to the IP addressA records that match the specified filters, use the filters argument and specify the parameters mentioned in the below table. These are the searchable parameters of the corresponding object in Infoblox NIOS WAPI. If you do not specify any parameter, the data source retrieves information about all A records in the NIOS Grid.

The following table describes the parameters you can define in an infoblox_a_record data source block:

*Aliases are the parameter names used in the prior releases of Infoblox IPAM Plug-In for Terraform. Do not use the alias names for parameters in the data source blocks. Using them can result in error scenarios.

Example of the A Record Data Source Block

The following example defines a data source of type infoblox_a_record and the name "vipa_rec_hosttemp", which is configured in a Terraform file. You can reference this resource and retrieve information about it. For example, data.

resource "infoblox_a_record." "vip_host" {
    fqdn = "very-interesting-host.example.com"
    ip_addr = "10.3.1.65"
    comment  returns the text entered as a comment for the A record.= "special host"
    dns_view = "nondefault_dnsview2"
    ttl = 120 // 120s
    ext_attrs = jsonencode({
      "Location" = "65.8665701230204, -37.00791763398113"
    })
}

data "infoblox_a_record" "vipa_rec_hosttemp" {
    dns_view="default" this is a required parameter
    fqdnfilters = {
      name = "very-interesting-host.example.com"
    ip_addr  ipv4addr = "10.3.1.65" //alias is ip_addr
      view = "nondefault_dnsview2"
}output "vip_host_id" {
    value = data.    }
   
    // This is just to ensure that the record has been created
    // using 'infoblox_a_record' resource block before the data source will be queried.
    depends_on = [infoblox_a_record.vip_host.id]
}

output "vipa_hostrec_zoneres" {
    value = data.infoblox_a_record.vip_host.zonea_rec_temp
}

// accessing individual field in results
output "vipa_hostrec_ttlname" {
    value = data.infoblox_a_record.vip_host.ttl
}output "vip_host_comment" {
    value = data.infoblox_a_record.vip_host.commenta_rec_temp.results.0.fqdn //zero represents index of the json object from the results list
}

// fetching A-Records through EAs
data "infoblox_a_record" "a_rec_ea" {
    filters = {
      "*Site" = "some test site"
      "*Location" = "65.8665701230204, -37.00791763398113"
      "*Location!" = "75.8665701230211"
    }
}

output "vipa_hostrec_ext_attrsout" {
    value = data.infoblox_a_record.vipa_host.extrec_attrsea
}