Issue with multi MX records

[matrixise]

Hi,

I try to add multiple google MX entries for a domain, and when I check the result, there is only one MX record in the OVH panel.

Sorry, I have not debugged the code, but do you have any idea?

Thank you

  - name: Add MX 10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com.
    ovh_dns:
      state: present
      domain: DOMAIN
      name:
      type: MX
      value: "10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com."

  - name: Add MX 10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com.
    ovh_dns:
      state: present
      domain: DOMAIN
      name:
      type: MX
      value: "10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com."

  - name: Add MX 1 aspmx.l.google.com.
    ovh_dns:
      state: present
      domain: DOMAIN
      name:
      type: MX
      value: "1 aspmx.l.google.com."

  - name: Add 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
    ovh_dns:
      state: present
      domain: DOMAIN
      name:
      type: MX
      value: "5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com."

  - name: Add 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
    ovh_dns:
      state: present
      domain: DOMAIN
      name:
      type: MX
      value: "5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com."

[lalmeras]

I suppose only your last record is kept.

You must provide a replace: with a pattern so that ovh_dns does not replace all records, but only records with the same priority.

Without replace, ovh_dns updates the same DOMAIN MX record.

  - name: Add MX 1 aspmx.l.google.com.
    ovh_dns:
      state: present
      domain: DOMAIN
      name:
      type: MX
      value: "1 aspmx.l.google.com."
      replace: "1 .*"
  - name: Add 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
    ovh_dns:
      state: present
      domain: DOMAIN
      name:
      type: MX
      value: "5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com."
      replace: "5 .*"

From my knowledge, you cannot manage multi-value records. I don't know how to handle easily how to set two MX record for each priority.

[matrixise]

Thanks for the suggestion/solution.

Yep, in fact, when you add a new record to OVH, you receive an ID, this ID should be store somewhere, but it's not the case.

I have tried with terraform and I don't have the issue because there is the state file.

[setop]

I suppose only your last record is kept.

You must provide a replace: with a pattern so that ovh_dns does not replace all records, but only records with the same priority.

Without replace, ovh_dns updates the same DOMAIN MX record.

  - name: Add MX 1 aspmx.l.google.com.
    ovh_dns:
      state: present
      domain: DOMAIN
      name:
      type: MX
      value: "1 aspmx.l.google.com."
      replace: "1 .*"
  - name: Add 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
    ovh_dns:
      state: present
      domain: DOMAIN
      name:
      type: MX
      value: "5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com."
      replace: "5 .*"

From my knowledge, you cannot manage multi-value records. I don't know how to handle easily how to set two MX record for each priority.

You can have multiple MX records using "append" instead of "present". But in that case, I don't know how to remove previous values ...