Do I need to change my license?

[Dannik]

I have my own ip-range, xx.xx.196.66 - xx.xx.196.94.
Before I had this range, my server was on another IP with another license. When I got this range, my license was changed to xxx.xxx.196.66 and that change worked out well. The only problem is that I have some trouble getting rDNS properly activated on xx.xx.196.66, so I want to change the standard ip to another one. It occurs that the problem comes with this specific ip, so I won't have the same problem with another ip.
The ip I have in mind is already active on this server on the same nic: xx.xx.196.69. When I use the ip-swap script, do I still need to change the license? The old ip will remain on the server, but I don't want it to be the standard ip anymore.

The server works well without a proper rDNS, but some e-mails will be refused/bounced because of the rDNS problem. I don't like that, neither do my customers.

Regards,
Danny

[floyd]

If the ip that is on the license is still going to be assigned to the server then change ethernet_dev=eth0 in
/usr/local/directadmin/conf/directadmin.conf to indicate which interface the licensed ip is on.

[Dannik]

Actually it's bge1 (FreeBSD) and not bge0, but that's because I used 2 vlans for a whlie (the old range was on bge0, the new range on bge1) and I wanted to switch the vlans without downtime. So the first nic is not used anymore.

For this I changed the config file so DA looks at the right nic for hte license. The only thing is I want the standard IP changed to .69 instead of .66.
IP .66 will still be availiable on the server, so that won't be the problem. As long as sent e-mails are sent from .69. That's why I thought of the ip-swap script, but I'm not sure about the license.

Danny

[floyd]

If your only concern is the mail then the easiest thing to do is add one line in exim.conf to tell it which ip to use.


# This transport is used for delivering messages over SMTP connections.

remote_smtp:
driver = smtp
interface = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

[Dannik]

Ah, great.

I just changed it. I will wait and see how that works out.
Thanx!

Danny

*** edit: I just sent some test mails and it seems they were sent from the right ip now :) ***