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jimmyt234

This feature allows administrators to determine which DNS requests are answered by which DNS servers.

I have raised a Meraki support ticket, but wanted to reach out to the community anyway to see if anyone had used this API / new feature yet.

The first issue I had is when trying to add multiple nameserver addresses, it threw an error saying: "More than one address is in addresses"

import requests

url = "https://api.meraki.com/api/v1/organizations/ORG_ID/appliance/dns/split/profiles"

payload = '''{
    "name": "8x8 DNS Profile",
    "hostnames": [ "*.8x8.com", "*.packet8.net" ],
    "nameservers": { "addresses": [ "8.28.0.9", "192.84.18.11" ] }
}'''

headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer API_TOKEN",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Accept": "application/json"
}

response = requests.request('POST', url, headers=headers, data = payload)

print(response.text.encode('utf8'))

When I added a profile with only one nameserver I was not convinced it was actually redirecting traffic to the specified nameserver, because a packet capture on the Internet port showed the DNS query going to the clients DNS server, which is set to Proxy to upstream DNS rather than the one added in the DNS profile via the API...

PhilipDAth

This is an interesting new feature you have found.

I suspect you'll need to be running the latest MX 19.x code for this to work.

jimmyt234

I am 😊

sungod

This is an Early Access call, it may be that it's still being tweaked/debugged.

I'd post the query in the API Early Access group https://community.meraki.com/t5/API-Early-Access-Group/gh-p/api-early-access if you're not a member you can request access.

There's also a direct feedback email available, you'll see it if/once you have group access.

jimmyt234

Thanks @sungod I found this early access group last night and was granted entry this morning. I have emailed the direct feedback address and will see where that gets me. 🙂

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