BinaryLane mPanel and service IPs
Introduction
To fully utilise the BinaryLane platform, you may need to create firewall rules to allow traffic to and from your servers. This includes allowing connectivity with our performance statistics server so that memory and disk utilisation can be graphed, our KMS for maintaining a valid license on our Windows VPS installs, and the 'ping' check in mPanel to function when using strict firewall rules.
This article covers the service IPs only. For guidance on managing firewall rules to allow traffic to and from your servers, see this article: https://support.binarylane.com.au/support/solutions/articles/11000033088-external-firewall.
Performance Graphs
For the mPanel performance graphs to display memory and disk utilisation, you'll need to allow traffic to the following destination IP address and port:
IP: 110.232.115.5
UDP Port: 21000
KMS for Windows VPS licensing
To maintain a valid license on our Windows VPS installs, the VPS will automatically attempt to contact our KMS server and activate or check the Windows license once per week.
While this is not required for the Windows VPS to function, connectivity with the KMS is required at least once every 180 days to maintain a valid Windows license.
The KMS server is located at the following destination IP address and port:
IP: 150.107.74.10
TCP Port: 1688
Ping Check in mPanel
The ping check in mPanel is used to determine if your server is online or not. This is done by sending an ICMP ping request to your server. If the ping request is successful, the server is considered online. If the ping request fails, the server is flagged as being offline.
The ping check is performed from the following locations and IP addresses:
Melbourne:
103.236.162.2
Sydney:
43.229.60.2
43.229.60.3
Brisbane:
103.16.128.2
Perth:
203.29.240.2
Singapore:
103.100.36.2
Additional Checks
Our system will ping all customer servers at intervals with ICMP to check if a VPS is 'up' and responding on the network. This helps us to quickly identify issues not picked up by our other monitoring systems. If ICMP responses fail, an attempt to open a connection to ports 22 and 3389 are performed. If connection succeeds, then the connection is immediately closed. No other activity takes place, such as login attempts. This is limited to opening, then closing a connection.
IP: 103.16.128.8
TCP Ports: 22 and 3389