Hi,
Why the floating IP associated with my droplet is not associated with domain name. When I check my dns / ping my site, it is showing Anchor IP(which is assigned while creating the droplet).
How to associate floating IP with domain name?
(In EC2, If I get a Elastic IP, it is associated with droplet and domain name. Why is DO different?)
Hi there,
Did you only recently assign a floating IP to the droplet? If so, your DNS records aren’t automatically updated to make use of a floating IP; you’ll need to go to your domain’s page in the Control Panel and manually change the A record’s IP address.
Also, one other possible source of confusion: when a droplet is created, it receives both a Public IP and an Anchor IP. There are a number of different ranges that the Public IP can be in, depending on what region the droplet is in, but the Anchor IP will be something like 10.16.0.5/16. This is a private network address, meaning you shouldn’t put an IP address starting with “10.” in your DNS records, as it won’t be reachable from the Internet.
I hope this helps, but let us know if you have any other questions!
—Nicholas C.
Platform Support Specialist
Sorry. I thought Anchor IP is public IP.
Anyways, if I assign A record in Domain Registrar to floating IP, it will work fine ?
Should I add floating IP in DigitalOcean’s Domain Record as well ? Because in the zone file, floating IP is not mentioned.