1. Operations
2. appliance
3. networking
4. dns
5. servers

## appliance networking dns servers: test

Test if dns servers are reachable.

### Request:

#### HTTP request

POST https://{server}/rest/appliance/networking/dns/servers/test

#### Request Body Structure:

- JSON
- XML

{
"servers": [
"string",
"string"
]
}
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<ns0:Test-Input xmlns:ns0="http://vmware.com/appliance/networking/dns/servers" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<servers-array>
<array-item>string</array-item>
<array-item>string</array-item>
</servers-array>
</ns0:Test-Input>

#### Request Body Parameters:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
bold = required
servers | string[] | DNS servers.

### Response:

#### HTTP Status Code: 200

#### Representations:

- JSON
- XML

{
"value": {
"messages": [
{
"message": "string",
"result": "failure"
},
{
"message": "string",
"result": "failure"
}
],
"status": "orange"
}
}
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<ns0:Test-Result xmlns:ns0="http://vmware.com/appliance/networking/dns/servers" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<value>
<status>orange</status>
<messages-array>
<array-item>
<message>string</message>
<result>failure</result>
</array-item>
<array-item>
<message>string</message>
<result>failure</result>
</array-item>
</messages-array>
</value>
</ns0:Test-Result>

#### Response Type:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
bold = required
value | test_status_info | DNS reacable status.
value.status | string | Overall status of tests run. Health indicator Value is one of: orange: In case data has more than one test, this indicates not all tests were successful green: All tests were successful for given data red: All tests failed for given data
value.messages | message[] | messages
value.messages[].message | string | message
value.messages[].result | string | result of the test Individual test result Value is one of: failure: message indicates the test failed. success: message indicates that the test was successful.

#### Errors:

HTTP Status Code | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
500 | error | Generic error