IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses

Every NoBull Networks server comes with a dedicated public IPv4 address, and most needs beyond that are a small add-on or a ticket away. Here is how addressing works across the product lines, how to add addresses, and how bringing your own space works for colocation.

What is included#

• VPS and VDS: one or two dedicated IPv4 addresses depending on the plan; the plan card lists the count. The address is yours for the life of the service and survives reinstalls and upgrades.
• Game servers: one or more allocations, each an IP address and port pair, shown on the Network tab of the panel. See Sub-Users, Allocations, and Ports.
• Colocation: routed IPv4 and IPv6 subnets from our space, or your own announced prefixes; see below.

Adding IPv4 addresses#

Additional IPv4 addresses for VPS and VDS plans are $5 per month each and are provisioned instantly. Add one from the Networking tab of your server in the cloud portal: click Add IP, review the price shown, and confirm with Create & Buy Now. The portal picks a free address from the block on your server's host and attaches it to the server's network interface; the server can be briefly unreachable while that happens. If your plan does not show the option, open a ticket and tell us briefly what the address is for; a one-line justification is standard practice for IPv4 these days.

Once assigned, the new address is listed on the Networking tab. Configure it inside your operating system as a secondary address on the primary interface (a fresh reinstall picks up assigned addresses automatically). To remove an additional address, use the trash icon next to it and confirm Delete; if any software on the server was bound to that address, reconfigure it first or it will stop working. Additional IP addresses are not refundable, so add what you need rather than what you might need.

IPv6#

IPv6 is part of the NoBull Networks network. If your service does not already show an IPv6 assignment on its service page and you need one, open a ticket and we will sort out an allocation for it. Give services a AAAA record and a matching reverse DNS entry, and test with ping6 or curl -6 before you advertise it.

Bring your own IP space (colocation)#

Colocation customers can have their own ARIN or RIPE prefixes announced from our multi-homed network on their behalf, or take routed IPv4 and IPv6 subnets from our space. We do not hand out customer-run BGP sessions by default; if your deployment genuinely needs one, raise it in your quote ticket and we will talk it through. See Request a Colocation Quote.

Reputation and reverse DNS#

An IP address carries a reputation. Keep yours clean by following the acceptable use rules, and set a reverse DNS record that matches your hostname if the server sends mail. If you inherit an address with a poor history on a blocklist, open a ticket; we will look at it with you.

Where to see your addresses#

All assigned addresses are listed on the Networking tab of the server in the cloud portal. From inside a Linux server, ip -brief addr shows what the operating system currently has configured; if the two disagree after a reinstall or upgrade, the network configuration in the guest needs a nudge, and the console is the place to do it.