Best steps to change the main IP address of server?
I'm hoping that someone can provide a best method for changing the main shared IP (which is also the Exim mail server IP) of one of my servers.
The data center I purchased the server from inherited to me a dirty IP mixed into a /24 net of abusers and spammers, so my customers are getting blocked despite the fact that my IP is squeaky clean.
I've already gone through every unblocking / delisting procedure imaginable (including asking the data center noc to do something about it) but after 3 months of fighting this issue I can see clearly they aren't going to clean up the garbage users from the network.
SO...
Can anyone tell me the best method to assign a new IP as the server's main IP / main shared IP, and if possible without any downtime for my users?
Fingers crossed... and thank you!
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Welp.. scratch that I guess... I was just informed by the data center that the IP is associated with the hardware and it would require them to move my hard drives to a new chassis etc... resulting in, to quote them, up to 24 hours of down time. :( 0 -
Welp.. scratch that I guess... I was just informed by the data center that the IP is associated with the hardware and it would require them to move my hard drives to a new chassis etc... resulting in, to quote them, up to 24 hours of down time.
Hello :) You could ask for an additional IP address, and then use the additional IP address for sending email: How to Configure Exim's Outgoing IP Address - cPanel Knowledge Base - cPanel Documentation Thank you.0 -
Can a new IP address address an issue with the main server IP being in a blacklist? My host is willig to give me a new IP due to being listed in UCEPROTECT level 2 and 3, would I be able to just configure this new IP just for email and keep the server running on the old blacklisted IP? 0 -
@360webfirm - while I'm not certain of the answer to your question, I just wanted to mention that I empathize. UCEPROTECT is infamous for blocking huge ranges of IPs, affecting innocent / clean hosts, and they're in the unethical business of "paid removal". I don't host anything that would be considered even remotely bad, I don't have any spammers or marketers, and my servers score 99 - 100 on Senderscore, yet still UCEPROTECT has caused problems for me on several occasions. 0 -
@cPRex - thanks for that info, very good to know! 0 -
Yes thats also correct with me, I am super strict with email, most clients use their own email such as gmail or another provider, but with the MX records set at the server level, the IP still shows these emails as being blacklisted. I hardly have anyone using the c panel email besides myself. The IP is not blacklisted itself, but rather the darn network. So frustrating and I ahve never changed the compleet server IP before and frankly I am worried I will get locked out or configure something incorrectly and I dont even know if the snapshots I take at my host would work if I messed up :-p 0 -
That's exactly correct. 0 -
SPF records could be a concern for sure. I haven't done extensive testing with that on my end, so I'm not 100% certain what the results would be. 0 -
Understandable. I'm guessing I'd probably have to document the current SPF entries for each account, then after changing the mail IP go into each account's zone file to put things back in place and add the new IP in each SPF. That would be a long tedious project, so fingers crossed that I never end up having to do it. 0 -
That's correct! 0
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