By mahirhasan
If I set the PTR of a droplet as s.domain.com, then do I need to add an A-record (IP of the droplet) for s.domain.com from my domain control panel? Or don’t I need anything more to do in this case?
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Hello, all
DigitalOcean will automatically create PTR records for your Droplets based on the names you give your Droplets in your DigitalOcean control panel.
The name of your Droplet must be a valid FQDN (Fully qualified domain name), so using example.com as the Droplet name will create a PTR record, but ubuntu-s-4vcpu-8gb-fra1-01 or my-droplet will not.
Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex
DigitalOcean doesn’t currently forward confirm PTR records, but yes, you will need a matching A record if you wish for it to work properly. (www.nsa.gov is an awesome PTR to set up :) )
You don’t <em>have</em> to but it’s recommended that you do add an A record that matches the PTR record.
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