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reserved ip - firewall settings?

Posted on July 10, 2025

hello, i want to use my reserved ip as sort of a firewall and have it only allow certain connections but not others e.g ssh so i can have it publically facing but secured, how do i go about applying settings to the reserved ip and not the rest of the droplet itself as when i tried to apply a firewall it only allowed me to apply it to the droplet but i want to be able to use the droplets normal ip to connect to it.



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Hi,

As far as I am aware DigitalOcean Firewalls are tied to Droplets or tags, not directly to Reserved IPs.

So if you’re using both the Droplet’s original IP and a Reserved IP, the firewall rules will apply to the whole Droplet, not just one IP.

If you want different behavior per IP, you’ll need to configure firewall rules manually inside the Droplet using something like iptables or nftables.

That way, you can restrict SSH or any other service to only respond on the Reserved IP.

Otherwise, built-in firewall won’t let you isolate traffic by specific Droplet IPs.

- Bobby

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