Bringing Your Own IPs to Cloudflare (BYOIP)
Cloudflare has announced the general availability of Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) across its Layer 7 products, Spectrum, and Magic Transit services. BYOIP allows customers to use their own IP prefixes with Cloudflare's services. The announcement includes listing BYOIP on relevant product pages, developer documentation, and UI support for controlling prefixes. Customers choose BYOIP for various reasons such as already allow-listed IP prefixes or having end users pointed directly to their IPs via DNS. BYOIP customers receive network analytics on their prefixes and can use the service with Layer 7 products, Spectrum, and Magic Transit. The process requires a Letter of Authorization (LOA) and up-to-date Internet Routing Registry (IRR) records before Cloudflare can announce the customer's prefix. Delegations manage how the prefix can be used across multiple Cloudflare accounts for Layer 7 and Spectrum BYOIP prefixes.
Company
Cloudflare
Date published
July 30, 2020
Author(s)
Tom Brightbill
Word count
1123
Hacker News points
7
Language
English