DNS

devmachine dns points a domain name at your server, so people can reach it by name instead of a bare IP address.

devmachine dns add example.com A 198.51.100.10

Zone and record

A zone is a domain: example.com. A record is one name, one type, and one value: www.example.com A 198.51.100.10.

dns add makes a name hold exactly the one value you give it — it replaces whatever was there. A name that needs several values on purpose is out of scope for dns add; use dns list to see what’s there, and your provider’s own tools for that case.

@ is the apex

@ means the domain itself, with no www or other prefix — the way most registrars write it:

devmachine dns add @ A 198.51.100.10 --zone example.com

Most of the time you type the full name, like example.com or www.example.com, and the CLI works out the label on its own.

Supported record types

A, AAAA, CNAME, TXT. Not MX or SRV — those need more than one value, and dns add only ever sets one.

A provider is a package

Talking to your domain provider — Hostinger, Cloudflare, or another — is a package, installed with devmachine packages add like any other. Until one is installed, dns add can’t write anywhere, and prints the record for you to create by hand instead. See DNS providers for what each one does.

Choosing a zone and a provider

A command picks which zone a name falls in, then which installed provider handles that zone. Name one directly with --dns-provider to skip the guessing; with two providers claiming the same zone, the CLI asks you to pick. Every command prints which provider it picked, and why.

The command asks before it writes. In a script, pass --publish to confirm you mean to create public DNS; --yes alone never does.

dns status is not dns list

dns list asks your provider what’s configured, whether or not it has reached the rest of the internet yet. dns status instead asks the internet directly — it resolves the name and checks its certificate, the way anybody else would see it, with no provider or machine needed.

A record can be right in dns list and still fail dns status simply because it hasn’t spread yet. The two answer different questions on purpose.