A list of the fixed IP addresses your provider has reserved for you, showing which server each one points at and what you're paying for the ones pointing at nothing — for anyone managing servers who wants to avoid paying for unused addresses.
Overview
- A reserved IP address (your provider may call it a floating IP, an elastic IP or a primary IP) belongs to your account, not to a particular server — you can move it from one server to another.
- InfraNest lists every reserved address found on your connected cloud accounts, along with the server it's attached to, its reverse-DNS name, its location and its monthly cost.
- This list is read directly from your provider, so it's never out of date: an address reserved or released in your provider's console shows up here on the next sync.
Find addresses you're paying for but not using
- Go to Servers, then open IP addresses.
- Read the banner at the top of the list — it counts unattached addresses and totals their monthly cost.
- Look down the Server column for any blank entries. A blank Server column means that address isn't attached to anything.
WarningAn unattached address isn't always a mistake. Some are kept on purpose — for maintenance, or because they're already registered in DNS or allow-listed by a partner. Releasing one of those loses the address for good. InfraNest won't release an address for you, because it can't tell which situation you're in.
Check an address's reverse DNS
- Go to Servers, then open IP addresses.
- Find the address you want to check and read the Reverse DNS column — this shows the PTR record, which is what a mail server or a log reader sees when your machine connects to it.
- To change it, open the server the address is attached to and go to its Networking tab — reverse DNS is edited there, not on this page.
Move an address to another server
- Moving a reserved address between servers is done in your provider's console, not in InfraNest.
- Once you've moved it there, InfraNest will pick up the change automatically the next time it syncs with your provider.
NoteThis page is a live read from your provider, not a separate record you need to keep in sync — there's nothing to reconcile here.
Tips
- Check this page occasionally after deleting a server — its reserved address may be left behind, still costing money, and it won't appear anywhere on a server's own page since it's no longer attached to one.
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