How do I set the PTR for a Floating IP?
How do I set the PTR record for a Floating IP?
How do I set the PTR record for a Floating IP?
This question has apparently become stale. Is there any roadmap or expected general release date for floating IPs PTRs?
Really want to see this added... very important when we're talking about using a 1:1 mapping between a droplet and a domain! Please let us know when this is going to be available.
+1 I have a feeling it will be more likely to be identified as a spammer with my mail server droplet which is behind a floating IP....
I'm worried about this also. What if I put real ip for my mail server? Would this help?
Only if said IP has a good reputation. That's why I'm so interested, if you have a floating IP with a good rep you can keep using it when switching/upgrading servers.
Any updates on this? I signed up for digitalocean specifically to set up a small mail server.
I'm looking for alternatives, but I'd love to give you guys a chance.
You can set setup PTRs on the regular IP assigned only to the machine by changing the machine's hostname to what the PTR record should be. The only difference is this IP is associated with that VM forever whereas a floating IP can be re-assigned.
How about now? 18 months later is there a plan to support PTR records for Floating IPs?
I too would like to see this, as others have said having a reverse lookup of the IP is important, especially when sending emails.
This is available from other cloud providers.
A bit of a problem for us that there isn't any way to do this with DO...
+1
It seems Gmail is no longer accepting emails from a server without a valid PTR, which you cannot get with a floating ip at DigitalOcean, so you either have a PTR or have the failback options offered by the floating ip, but not both. What a shame.
+1
digital ocean is not usable for my system without floating IPs, and floating IPs are not usable without PTR
Looks like this issue is open for a year and a half now, can anyone at Digital Ocean address it?
Where is Digital Ocean????
An ETA or a work around would be the least to do for something that is asked/needed so much.
Adding my voice to this - PTR records on floating IP addresses are important
+1, No PTR record for a Floating IP, this makes the Floating IP useless.
This is a serious issue. Without reverse IP its not possible to send email without using a third party relay. Even if the droplet is not used a mailserver, being able to send emails is often critical even if its just to get notifications from cron tasks.
See the post here which gives an example of why PTR records are required:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/i-can-not-send-emails-with-postfix
As others have pointed out, without PTR records floating IP's in many cases are essentially useless.
+1 useless
+1 it would be nice to have this feature implemented
+1 I now have this issue too