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    Dynamic DNS with DigitalOcean - Must provide Hostname and Domain name

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      johnz1
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      Hello

      I have Dynamic DNS working with DigitalOcean - but only with one of the two records I need. The '*.mydomain.com' A record is working great. However, I also need a 'mydomain.com' A record, and I'm having trouble configuring this in pfSense. I think the problem is that pfSense requires the "Hostname" and "Domain name" fields. If "Hostname" wasn't required, I would expect this configuration to work. I have tried the "DigitalOcean" and "DigitalOcean (v6)" Service Types.

      I tried to get clever by setting Hostname to "mydomain" and Domain name to "com". It results in a configuration that looks good in pfSense, but the Cached IP gets set to "N/A" and no record is created or updated in DigitalOcean.

      Is there any way to have a domain name without a hostname in Dynamic DNS (with DigitalOcean)?

      I'm running the latest version of pfSense CE (2.7.2)

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        johnz1 @johnz1
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        Ugh. Well I figured this out seconds after I posted. Hopefully this will help someone in the future...

        The syntax is the same as DigitalOcean: "Use @ to create the record at the root of the domain"

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