AWS and Azure ALIAS records in Micetro

Micetro synchronizes ALIAS records, which can be viewed in the Web Application or through API.

In Micetro, ALIAS records are read-only. They have the type “ALIAS” and their underlying DNS record type is represented in the data field of the record, along with the resource id/hostname in a human-readable and raw format, all tab-separated.

Note

In the data grid, the full resource ID is not displayed in the Data column of the ALIAS record’s entry in the list of a DNS zone’s resource records. Only the underlying record type and formatted resource ID are displayed.

Examples of AWS and Azure ALIAS records

Data

underlying_dns_record_type<tab>resource_id_formatted<tab>full_resource_id

Note

Resources in Azure are identified by a slash-separated string. Resources in AWS are identified by their DNS hostname.

ALIAS record AWS data example

A VPC endpoint:

Europe (Stockholm)<tab>vpce-04e04fa8c9c44a079-fmwbokaq-eu-north-1a.vpce-svc-02498cff0b1f41c19.eu-north-1.cpvce.amazonaws.com.

ALIAS record Azure data example

A public IP address:

ip-name<tab>/subscriptions/{subscription-id}/resourceGroups/{resource-group-name}/providers/Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/ip-name

Record types that support ALIAS records

Record types that support ALIAS records in AWS include the following:

  • A

  • AAAA

  • CAA

  • CNAME

  • MX

  • NAPTR

  • PTR

  • SPF

  • SRV

  • TXT

Records types that support ALIAS records in Azure include the following:

  • A

  • AAAA

  • CNAME

Note

No other record types are supported, even though they can be created in the cloud platform UI (or through API).