I have a top-level domain for a client registered at Go Daddy. Call it domain.com
I’d like to have a subdomain thereof be hosted at DO with a LB and SSL managed by the Let’s Encrypt support. Call it sub.domain.com
AFAICT, DO requires me to set the nameservers for domain.com to ns{1,2,3}.do.com and not the nameservers for just sub.domain.com.
I don’t want to have DO hijack all of the client’s DNS.
Is there a way to have sub.domain.com on a DO LB with SSL via Let’s Encrypt or am I stuck with TLD domain.com only?
Thanks!
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AFAICT, DO requires me to set the nameservers for domain.com to ns{1,2,3}.do.com and not the nameservers for just sub.domain.com.
Here I mean I have NS records for sub.domain.com not the TLD’s default nameservers.
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