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Cannot ping reserved IP

Posted on March 5, 2025

Hi, I have created new droplet and assign reserved IP I also have configured firewall that allow ICMP

currently I able to ping my droplet using default Public IP4. However I got an issue while ping my reserved IP

I also have assigned my reserved IP to my droplet but still got error when ping <reservedIP>

sucess ping <defaultIP>



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Heya, @00bde60995fe47848d3b145fba2255

You can check if the droplet has UFW enabled and a rule is blocking the ICMP requests or if there is a Cloud Firewall that also limits the ping requests.

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