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API Reference (API Version 2016-11-15)

AWS Documentation » Amazon EC2 » API Reference » Actions » EnableVpcClassicLinkDnsSupport

EnableVpcClassicLinkDnsSupport

Enables a VPC to support DNS hostname resolution for ClassicLink. If enabled, the DNS hostname of a linked EC2-Classic instance resolves to its private IP address when addressed from an instance in the VPC to which it's linked. Similarly, the DNS hostname of an instance in a VPC resolves to its private IP address when addressed from a linked EC2-Classic instance. For more information about ClassicLink, see ClassicLink in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

Request Parameters

For more information about required and optional parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Query Parameters.

VpcId

The ID of the VPC.

Type: String

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: String

return

Returns true if the request succeeds; otherwise, it returns an error.

Type: Boolean

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Client Errors.

Example

Example

This example enables vpc-8888888 for ClassicLink DNS support.

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=EnableVpcClassicLinkDnsSupport
&VpcId=vpc-8888888
&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response

<EnableVpcClassicLinkDnsSupportResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
  <requestId>59dbff89-35bd-4eac-99ed-be587EXAMPLE</requestId> 
  <return>true</return>
</EnableVpcClassicLinkDnsSupportResponse>

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: