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New Droplet and DNS entry

Posted on July 24, 2014

Hello,

I have a domain (say example.com) already created using DigitalOcean control panel and now I create a new droplet with hostname like newhost.example.com . Would it add a A record automatically to DNS entries?

And in such case nslookup newhost.example.com ns1.digitalocean.com should lookup the ip of newhost, is that right?

For some reason this isn’t working for me.

TIA



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Would it add a A record automatically to DNS entries?

No, you will need to create the A record manually:

Replace 1.2.3.4 with your droplet’s IP address.

Ah ok. Thanks.

My bad. I misinterpreted name description in create_droplet API which says “The name, if set to a domain name managed in the DigitalOcean DNS management system, will configure a PTR record for the Droplet.”.

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