Send outbound traffic over floating IP
Is it possible to route outbound traffic from a droplet through its floating IP. I.e., make http requests from the droplet that appear to originate from the floating IP?
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The short answer is yes. The longer answer is that it depends on the software you are using to make the request. It needs to expose some way of binding to a particular interface. If it does, you'll need to find what we call the "anchor IP" and use it. The easiest way to find the anchor IP is to inspect your Droplet's metadata. From the Droplet, run:
- curl -s http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1/interfaces/public/0/anchor_ipv4/address
In my case, it returns 10.10.0.8 If you wanted to make your request with curl you could then use:
- curl --interface 10.10.0.8 https://example.com
Or with wget you would use:
- wget --bind-address=10.10.0.8 https://example.com
In both cases, example.com would now see the request as coming from my Floating IP not my Droplet's IP address.
Check out this tutorial for more info on Floating IPs: How To Use Floating IPs on DigitalOcean In particular, see the section on "Droplet Anchor IPs."
A DigitalOcean Floating IP is a publicly-accessible static IP address that can be mapped to one of your Droplets. A Floating IP can also be instantly remapped, via the DigitalOcean Control Panel or API, to one of your other Droplets in the same datacenter. This instant remapping capability grants you the ability to design and create High Availability (HA) server infrastructures by adding redundancy to the entry point, or gateway, to your servers.
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