By pythonic
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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