hi everyone,

I was just about to self-host a Ghost blog but then was warned that my ISP might change my external IP address at any time, so I would need to pay for a static IP address.

Is that true?

(I’d not seen much about that in stuff I’ve looked up so far about self hosting)

  • Saik0AEnglish
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    1 month ago

    PTR requirements are generally that it “resolves”, not that it explicitly needs to match anything (Which I never understood as a choice). But PTR records are set by the IP address owner/holder. If you’re saying that you have google fiber, then Google would have control over the PTR and you’d have to ask them to set it (if they do…).

    If you dump your IP into the easydmarc tool in my previous comment or any other tool that resolves PTR, you’ll likely find that it resolves to something.

    Or you can drill or nslookup the record as well (drill -x <ipaddress> or nslookup <ip address> I believe).