Note

IDN is supported for object type: fqdn and dname. You can use punycode or IDNs while importing these objects.

Field Name	Data Type	Required (Yes/No)	Associated GUI Field	Associated PAPI Method	Usage and Guidelines
Header-PtrRecord	String	Yes			Example: PtrRecord
fqdn	FQDN	No	Name	name zone	This field is required if you do not use the address field. Either the IP address or FQDN is required. Example: 10.0.0.10.in.addr.arpa
_new_fqdn	Reverse FQDN	No			Add this field to overwrite the fqdn field when you use the overwrite or merge option.
view	String	No	DNS View	views	If no view is specified, the Default view is used. Example: Default
address	IP address	No	IP Address	ipv4addrss ipv6addrss	This field is required if you do not use the fqdn field. Either the IP address or FQDN is required. Example: 10.0.0.11 If the PTR record belongs to a forward-mapping zone, this field is empty.
_new_address	IP address	No			Add this field to overwrite the address field when you use the overwrite or merge option.
dname	FQDN	Yes	Domain Name	ptrdname	Example: ss.dd.ff
_new_dname	FQDN	No			Add this field to overwrite the dname field when you select the overwrite or merge option.
comment	String	No		Comment comment
disabled	Boolean	No	Disable	disable	Example: FALSE
ttl	Unsigned integer	No	TTL	ttl	This is an inherited field. Example: 28800
EA-Site	String	No	Extensible attribute Site	extensible_attributes	EA-Site is an example of a predefined extensible attribute. You can add other predefined attributes to the data file. For information about data format and examples, see Data Specific Guidelines.
ADMGRP-JoeSmith	String	No	Permissions Admin Group/Role	permission	ADMGRP-JoeSmith is an example of an admin permission of a specific admin group. For information about data format and examples, see Data Specific Guidelines.

Examples

This section contains examples of how to create data files for PTR records. All examples use comma as the separator. You can use other supported separators, such as semicolon, space, or tab.

Adding a PTR Record

This example shows how to add a PTR record.

header-ptrrecord,dname*,fqdn ptrrecord,ptr.corp100.com,1.0.0.100.in-addr.arpa

Overwriting PTR Record Data

This example shows how to overwrite an existing PTR record with a new FQDN, 2.0.0.100.in-addr.arpa.

header-ptrrecord,dname*,fqdn ptrrecord,ptr.corp100.com,2.0.0.100.in-addr.arpa

This example shows how to overwrite an existing PTR record with a new IP address, 100.0.0.3.

header-ptrrecord,dname*,address ptrrecord,ptr.corp100.com,100.0.0.3

Merging PTR Record Data

This example shows how to change the DNAME of a PTR record from ptr.corp100.com to ptr2.corp100.com, and to add comment = East Asia.

header-ptrrecord,dname*,_new_dname,comment ptrrecord,ptr.corp100.com,ptr2.corp100.com,East Asia