IP Addresses | DO Ideas

237 Vote

Give users IPv6 /64 blocks when you roll out IPv6

As you guys are testing IPv6 in the Singapore region, I highly recommend you give users a /64 each when IPv6 rolls out. This is proper practice, and gives users more flexibility in terms of address selection.

Created 11 Sep 05:31pm by D. Strout

IP Addresses

60 Future consideration
75 Vote

Allow launching droplets with no public ipv4 IP and give a discount for this

Other posts have commented on the cost of providing extra IPv4 IPs. It strikes me many users may not actually need a public IP for their usage, and if appropriately incentivised would choose not to use one.

Created 11 Sep 06:55pm by Alex Bradbury

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15 Future consideration
56 Vote

Support for multicast

full support for network broadcast and multicast like what is supported in RackSpace

Created 11 Sep 05:44pm by Leng Sheng Hong

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8 Future consideration
21 Vote

Reverse DNS for Foating IPv4 and IPv6 on DigitalOcean-supplied or Customer's Domains

DigitalOcean owns the IP blocks from which Floating IP addresses are allocated to droplets. It would be a benefit to the customer to automatically assign Reverse DNS records to the Floating IP addresses handed out. Mail Exchange servers, and any s...

Created 11 Sep 04:04pm by Steve Summers

IP Addresses

2 Needs review
11 Vote

BYOIP - Option to Bring Your Own IP Range

Having the option to bring our own leased ip range and assign it to droplets or load balancers

Created 22 Feb 02:19pm by Anonymous

IP Addresses

2 Needs review
11 Vote

Offer to choose the IP geolocation (European datacenters)

Even if the servers are located in Amsterdam, we should be able to choose an IP from France, Germany, Spain, etc. It is very important for search engines. OVH.com has offered this feature for several years for free. In Europe, IP geolocation is...

Created 11 Sep 05:48pm by Jean-Philippe Ansel

IP Addresses

5 Will not implement
11 Vote

Publish a list of IP ranges a droplet might get an address from

For firewalling purposes this would be very handy.

Created 11 Sep 05:30pm by Marijn Meijles

IP Addresses

2 Shipped
9 Vote

Please follow standard network guidelines and assign AT LEAST a /56 to every customer

Summary: Please give me (and everyone else) a /56 for every VM.I see you have 2604:a880::/32. You could hand out 2^24 /56 networks from that. If you need more then ARIN/RIPE will give you more, because that's what IPv6 is designed for.IPv6 is grea...

Created 9 Oct 04:48pm by Thomas Habets

IP Addresses

1 Needs review
8 Vote

Discounts for IPv6-only droplets

As described here: https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/announcing-nyc3-with-ipv6-support/#comment-1550047033

Created 11 Sep 05:19pm by Stuart P. Bentley

IP Addresses

1 Needs review
8 Vote

Add option to announce own IP-Space (BYOIP) at DigitalOcean

I would be happy to see a option, to announce my own IP-Space (eg. /24) at DO, so i can use my own IP-Addresses with the droplets. Some other Cloudproviders offers this option. In 2014 this suggestion was declined. Lets try it again. :)

Created 11 Sep 04:09pm by Anonymous

IP Addresses

1 Needs review