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One of your competitors offers automatically created sub-domains for each VM

Posted on March 29, 2021

One of your competitors automatically creates sub-domains for each VM created through their service.

For example: https://example2226-199.members.digitalocean-competitor.com/

Do you already do this? I’ve been searching the docs and and questions and I cannot find any information about this, if so. Is there some API method which I need to invoke, or some setting I need to toggle to accomplish this?

This isn’t particularly useful for a long-term component, but it’s great for developing and testing SSL certificate configuration management automation, and so I’ve been spending money on your competitor’s service spinning these VMs up and down. Obviously I’d rather be giving you this business, because I like y’all.

$ dig example2226-199.members.digitalocean-competitor.com

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> -x example2226-199.members.digitalocean-competitor.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 14426
;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;com.digitalocean-competitor.members.example2226-199.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
in-addr.arpa.		3600	IN	SOA	b.in-addr-servers.arpa. nstld.iana.org. 2021031589 1800 900 604800 3600

;; Query time: 125 msec
;; SERVER: 1.1.1.1#53(1.1.1.1)
;; WHEN: Sun Mar 28 23:06:23 CDT 2021
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 139

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