'GCE custom hostname reverse lookup in private DNS zones
I want to create an instance in Google Cloud Engine with a custom (private) hostname. For that reason, when creating the instance from the Console (or from an SDK) I supply the hostname, or example instance0.custom.hostname.
The instance is created and the search domain is set correctly in /etc/resolv.conf For Ubuntu in particular I have to set the hostname with hostnamectl but it is irrelevant to the question.
Forward DNS lookups work as normal for instance0.custom.hostname. The problem comes when I do a reverse lookup for the private IP address of the instace. In that case the answer I get is the GCE "long" name instead of my custom hostname.
How can I make the reverse lookup reply with my custom name instead of the GCE?
I know in Azure you can use a Private DNS Zone with VM auto-registration to handle the "custom hostnames". I tried using a private zone with Google Cloud DNS (PTR records) but with no luck.
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