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marko
marko

Reputation: 3776

Amazon EC2 elastic-IP problems

Has anyone experienced your elastic IP going bananas?

I set up an elastic IP and it just went crazy so my instance was unavailable, in the end I had to terminate it...

I couldn't get hold of any logs och reports, feels very very strange...

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3027

Answers (2)

Frodo Baggins
Frodo Baggins

Reputation: 8533

The IP cannot go "bananas". Look the AWS console for the public DNS of the server. Try connecting using that instead of the elastic IP. If connecting using that fails then it is the instance itself that is that problem.

If that works, then how long did you leave between attaching the IP and trying to connect (i.e. what are the timescales on this problem)?

Upvotes: 2

Eight-Bit Guru
Eight-Bit Guru

Reputation: 9961

An EIP (Elastic IP) address is nothing more than a reserved address which is assigned to your EC2 account, and which you can allocate to any running VM you own.

There isn't anything to 'go crazy' with an EIP, since it is an inert object - when not assigned to a VM it does nothing but cost you a tiny amount of money, and, when assigned, its' cost drops to zero and the VM switches its' default address out and assumes the EIP instead.

Upvotes: 6

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