API call to record return empty list

[#1]

Hi all,

I'm want to do a (simple?) GET request that resolves hostname to IPv4 address. I cannot do this via DNS, but I do have access to infoblox API. The problem is, it sometimes returnes an empty list:

GET wapi/v2.12.3/record:host?name~=somehostname

RESPONSE:

200 OK

[]

If I log in to Infoblox GUI and search on DNS Name I get several hits for the same hostname (A, PTR, TXT etc). There definately is a host record in infoblox for that hostname. I have tried various variants of record calls, but they all show the same behaviour. It does not seem to matter if I use ~=, = or := nor if I match the full fqdn exactly.

Do I use the wrong endpoint? Is there an eqvivalent of the seach function in the GUI for DNS Name?

Cheers,

[#2]

Your search will only return host records that match, it won't return any other types of records.

You could potentially do an allrecords search but that requires knowing the zone to search in.

GET /wapi/v2.12/allrecords?name~=something&zone=example.org

You could also do an actual DNS dig query:

POST 'https://gm.example.org/wapi/v2.12/grid?_function=query_fqdn_on_member&member=gm.example.org&fqdn=www.infoblox.com'

[#3]

Thanks for the reply. Explain it to me like I'm five. I get the same result if I do:

GET wapi/v2.12.3/record:a?name=somehost.domain.com

... and it obviously have an A record since I can see it in the GUI?

[#4]

Take a look in the GUI, there may be an A record and also a HOST record with the same name & IP address.

[#5]

Don't think so, but I'm better at writing code than managing Infoblox.

[#6]

GIven that a search in GUI for A-record return a result (more specifically two in this case), should not an API call to record:a return the same result?

[#7]

Yes I agree, unfortunately it's hard to know what's going on without your actual data and code and such.

Note that only one A record is returned in the GUI, however it's matched for multiple reasons so it's displayed multiple times.