I am going to add a droplet that will serve 2 websites. One with email for my personal use.
I need reverse dns working. I read one way is to give the droplet a FQDN name and it will configure reverse dns automatically. But I want to stay organized, and it’s weird to give a shared server a dedicated name.
How else can this be done? Can I manually add some pointer record or something? Is there a manual method?
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Hello friend!
This is the only way to set the reverse DNS on our platform. You might consider a neutral hostname for it. This will also keep email headers more neutral because they will reference the server hostname, and they do need to reference a valid hostname to ensure any reasonable quality of email delivery (HELO statement must always match PTR). By neutral it could simply be registering a cheap domain that has no relevance to anything, and calling it “server1.mydomain.tld” or something like that.
Kind Regards, Jarland
Thanks for the info.