By hjones014
I have a created a VPS server (or i think you refer to them as droplets?) and I want to setup a PTR record so that the IP address forwards to the domain name. I have registered the domain name with godaddy. How exactly do I set this up? At godaddy, I have the nameservers set to ns1,ns2 and ns3.digitalocean.com. Im familiar with A records and CNAME and MX but this PTR is new to me. Thanks
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Hi there, I’m having the same question. How can I see if the droplet is a “fully qualified domain name”? You mean, the droplet name has to be something like “mydomain.com”? What if I would like to have several domain pointing to the same droplet?
PTR records are the reverse lookups, they’re set in the control panel by setting the Droplet Name. If the droplet name is a fully qualified domain name (domain.com) then the PTR will be set to it.
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