PATCH /accounts/{account_id}/dns_firewall/{dns_firewall_id}

Modify the configuration of a DNS Firewall cluster

Servers

Path parameters

Name Type Required Description
dns_firewall_id String Yes
account_id String Yes

Request headers

Name Type Required Description
Content-Type String Yes The media type of the request body.

Default value: "application/json"

Request body fields

Name Type Required Description
upstream_ips[] Array No
negative_cache_ttl Number No

Negative DNS cache TTL This setting controls how long DNS Firewall should cache negative responses (e.g., NXDOMAIN) from the upstream servers.

name String No

DNS Firewall cluster name

deprecate_any_requests Boolean No

Whether to refuse to answer queries for the ANY type

attack_mitigation Object No

Attack mitigation settings

attack_mitigation.only_when_upstream_unhealthy Boolean No

Only mitigate attacks when upstream servers seem unhealthy

Default value: true

attack_mitigation.enabled Boolean No

When enabled, automatically mitigate random-prefix attacks to protect upstream DNS servers

ecs_fallback Boolean No

Whether to forward client IP (resolver) subnet if no EDNS Client Subnet is sent

minimum_cache_ttl Number No

Minimum DNS cache TTL This setting sets a lower bound on DNS TTLs for purposes of caching between DNS Firewall and the upstream servers. Lower TTLs will be increased to the minimum defined here for caching purposes.

Default value: 60

ratelimit Number No

Ratelimit in queries per second per datacenter (applies to DNS queries sent to the upstream nameservers configured on the cluster)

retries Number No

Number of retries for fetching DNS responses from upstream nameservers (not counting the initial attempt)

Default value: 2

maximum_cache_ttl Number No

Maximum DNS cache TTL This setting sets an upper bound on DNS TTLs for purposes of caching between DNS Firewall and the upstream servers. Higher TTLs will be decreased to the maximum defined here for caching purposes.

Default value: 900

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