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How to Manage IPv4 on a Vultr Bare Metal Instance

Updated on November 27, 2024

A public IPv4 network is available and attached to your Vultr Cloud Compute instance after deployment unless disabled by default. You can attach multiple IPv4 addresses on an instance to enable connections on the main public networking interface.

Follow this guide to manage the IPv4 information on a Vultr Bare Metal instance using the Vultr Customer Portal, API, or CLI.

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  • Vultr CLI

  1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.

    Vultr Customer Portal

  2. Click your target instance to open its management page.

    View active Bare Metal instances

  3. Navigate to the Settings tab.

    Navigate to the Settings Tab

  4. Click IPv4 on the left navigation menu to view your instance's public IPv4 network information.

    Access IPV4 Settings

  5. Click the default IPv4 reverse DNS value and replace it with your domain values to enable reverse DNS on your instance.

    Enable IPv4 Reverse DNS

  1. Send a GET request to the List Bare Metal Instances endpoint and note the target instance's ID in your output.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/bare-metals" \
  -X GET \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  2. Send a GET request to the Bare Metal IPv4 Addresses endpoint to view the instance's IPv4 information.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/bare-metals/{baremetal-id}/ipv4" \
  -X GET \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  1. List all Bare Metal instances available in your Vultr account and note the target instance's ID in your output.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli bare-metal list

  2. List your target instance's IPv4 address information.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli bare-metal ipv4 <instance-id>