On Wed, Nov 3, 2021, 11:06 Paul Heinlein <heinl...@madboa.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2021, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > Wes is correct + it makes sense - IP owner is the entity which can create > > reverse DNS record for the IP. > > Right. I think DNS has a built-in assumption that domain owners also > manage their own IP space, which is mostly untrue for personal > domains. > > > If you want to do your own email server, on Linode for example, you will > go > > to your DNS provider and set Linode's DNS server as your domain DNS or > just > > email DNS. Then create your zone + reverse record on Linode's DNS server. > > I'm willing to pay for an always-on VM, which may be an unnecessary > expense for someone else, but Digital Ocean created the reverse > pointers for my VM when I spun it up. I didn't need to change my DNS > zone provider at all. I've used Zoneedit's free DNS service for years > now; it's always been solid for me: > > https://www.zoneedit.com/free-dns/ > . Ditto. I did not have to pay Linode for reverse DNS on static IP. AWS is same, I believe. The DNS needs to be managed/matched in two places though. - T
