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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
+1 please userdefined PTR records or at least the option to set them to our floating IP
Hey, I know you guys are already very busy working your asses off to provide us this awesome service and I’m very thankful for that, but if it helps to somewhat prioritize your tasks a little bit more, then I would like to add my concerns to this issue as well :).
+1 having PTR for floating IP
Using domain as droplet name the PTR is simply created and sending e-mails with postfix null client is easy. But with the - very cool - floating IP this PTR-creation is broken.
However, since I have to send e-mails, my workaround is to use a 3rd party relay (in my case gandi) with user/password authentication at the relay. Found the steps in https://yousharedsite.wordpress.com/2017/03/19/how-to-configure-postfix-relay-in-centos-7/ (there for gmail). Just in case, the next reader have to sent emails too and is looking for a work-around.
Just rediculous this is not supported - just had to stop using my floating IP because of this after confirming Gmail does not accept email from my floating IP, but does accept email from the droplet IP with PTR record configured. Floating IP is now useless.