UpdateNameServer

Usage

Use this command when the IP address of a name server changes.

Availability

All resellers have access to this command.

Constraints

The query must meet the following requirements:

The login ID and password must be valid.
The domain name of the name server must belong to this account.
Enom must be the authoritative registrar (in the Registry’s records) for the root domain.
The registrar lock for the name server domain must be set to off while you update name servers. Once The name server IP has been updated, you can (and we recommend that you do) switch the registrar lock back on.

Input Parameters

https://resellertest.enom.com/interface.asp?command=UpdateNameServer&uid=(Required)&pw=(Required)&OldIP=(Required)&NewIP=(Required)&NS=(Required)&responsetype=(Optional)

Input Parameter	Type	Status	Description
command	string	Required	ValidatePassword
uid	string	Required	Your Account ID
pw	string	Required	Your API Token
OldIP	string	Required	Old IP address of the name server in the Registry’s records
NewIP	string	Required	New IP address of the name server in the Registry’s records
NS	string	Required	Use name of the name server, in the Registry’s records
ResponseType	string	Optional	Format of response. Permitted values are Text (default) HTML XML

Returned Parameters and Values

The default response format is plain text. To receive the response in HTML or XML format, send ResponseType=HTML or ResponseType=XML in your request.

Check the return parameter "ErrCount". If greater than 0 the transaction failed. The parameter "Err(ErrCount)" can be presented to the client. Otherwise, the process returns parameters as defined below.

Output Parameter	Type	Description
Command	string	Name of command executed
NSSuccess	string	1 indicates that the name server IP update is successful
RRPCode	int	Registry processing status code
RRPText	string	Text explanation of registry code
ErrCount	int	The number of errors if any occurred. If greater than 0 check the Err(1 to ErrCount) values.
ErrX	string	Error messages explaining the failure. These can be presented as is back to the client.
Done	boolian	"True" indicates this entire response has reached you successfully.

Example Output

The following query requests the account balance for account Login Id "resellid". The query also requests the response in XML, HTML, or Text format.

Check the return parameter ErrCount. If greater than 0 the transaction failed. The parameter Err(ErrCount) can be presented to the client. Otherwise, process the returned parameters as defined above.

https://resellertest.enom.com/interface.asp?
command=updatenameserver&uid=resellid&pw=resellpw
&OldIP=127.0.0.1&NewIP=127.0.0.2
&NS=dns1.resellerdocs.com&responsetype=xml

https://resellertest.enom.com/interface.asp?
command=validatepassword&uid=resellid&pw=resellpw
&sld=resellerdocs2&tld=net&domainpassword=resellerdocs2pw&ResponseType=html

https://resellertest.enom.com/interface.asp?
command=validatepassword&uid=resellid&pw=resellpw
&sld=resellerdocs2&tld=net&domainpassword=resellerdocs2pw&ResponseType=text

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<interface-response>
 <RegisterNameserver>
  <NsSuccess>1</NsSuccess>
 </RegisterNameserver>
 <RRPCode>200</RRPCode>
 <RRPText>Command completed successfully</RRPText>
 <Command>UPDATENAMESERVER</Command>
 <ErrCount>0</ErrCount>
 <Server>RESELLERTEST</Server>
 <Site>enom</Site>
 <IsLockable>True</IsLockable>
 <IsRealTimeTLD>True</IsRealTimeTLD>
 <Done>true</Done>
 <debug>
  <![CDATA[ ] ]>
 </debug>
</interface-response>

;URL Interface<br>
;Machine is SJL0VWRESELL_T<br>
;Encoding Type is utf-8<br>
<HTML><BODY>
  <STRONG>NsSuccess: </ STRONG>0<br>
  <STRONG>RRPCode: </ STRONG>200<br>
  <STRONG>RRPText: </ STRONG>Command completed successfully<br>
  <STRONG>Command: </ STRONG>UPDATENAMESERVER<br>
  <STRONG>APIType: </ STRONG>API<br>
  <STRONG>Language: </ STRONG>eng<br>
  <STRONG>ErrCount: </ STRONG>0<br>
  <STRONG>ResponseCount: </ STRONG>0<br>
  <STRONG>MinPeriod: </ STRONG>1<br>
  <STRONG>MaxPeriod: </ STRONG>10<br>
  <STRONG>Server: </ STRONG>SJL0VWRESELL_T1<br>
  <STRONG>Site:</ STRONG><br>
  <STRONG>IsLockable: </ STRONG>True<br>
  <STRONG>IsRealTimeTLD: </ STRONG>True<br>
  <STRONG>TimeDifference: </ STRONG>+08.00<br>
  <STRONG>ExecTime: </ STRONG>1.719<br>
  <STRONG>Done: </ STRONG>true<br>
  <STRONG>RequestDateTime: </ STRONG>2/9/2015 2:19:58 PM<br>
</BODY></HTML>

;URL Interface
;Machine is SJL0VWRESELL_T1
;Encoding Type is utf-8
NsSuccess=0
RRPCode=200
RRPText=Command completed successfully
Command=UPDATENAMESERVER
APIType=API
Language=eng
ErrCount=0
ResponseCount=0
MinPeriod=1
MaxPeriod=10
Server=SJL0VWRESELL_T1
Site=
IsLockable=True
IsRealTimeTLD=True
TimeDifference=+08.00
ExecTime=0.816
Done=true
RequestDateTime=2/9/2015 2:20:56 PM

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