Machine Api endpoint from within an App or Machine

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I’m trying to access the machine API from within an app or machine running on fly.io, but I’m having the issue that _api.internal is not known.

Isn’t it part of the internal DNS?

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It should work, yes (and folks have reported it working before):

For a test Machine app I run, I see it work:

fly dig AAAA _api.internal -a <app-name>

;; opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 35964
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; ANSWER SECTION:
_api.internal.	5	IN	AAAA	fdaa:0:<orgid>::3

Are you querying for AAAA records? Some are TXT records too (ref docs).

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Ok, I must have done something wrong.

I started over, tried the fly dig command and it is working as expected.
The first machine created from within another machine is already running :wink:

Thanks!

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