Why can Floating IPs not be moved between data centers?

April 5, 2016 1.7k views
DNS Networking Load Balancing DigitalOcean
warren
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warren

According to this, Floating IPs can

be instantly remapped, via the DigitalOcean Control Panel or API, to one of your other Droplets in the same datacenter

What prevents Floating IPs from pointing to Droplets in different data centers?

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gparent April 5, 2016

Because of the inherent workings of Internet routing and the sizes of the blocks allocated to network service providers.

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  • warren April 5, 2016

    Can you elaborate?

    • gparent April 5, 2016

      IPs are allocated in blocks, not individually. This means it's not as trivial as it seems to route a single IP to a different datacenter.

Failovery April 18, 2016

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