ipAddress

The IPv4 or IPv6 IP address of the endpoint that you want Amazon Route 53 to perform health checks on. If you don't specify a value for IPAddress , Route 53 sends a DNS request to resolve the domain name that you specify in FullyQualifiedDomainName at the interval that you specify in RequestInterval . Using an IP address returned by DNS, Route 53 then checks the health of the endpoint. Use one of the following formats for the value of IPAddress :

• IPv4 address : four values between 0 and 255, separated by periods (.), for example, 192.0.2.44 .

• IPv6 address : eight groups of four hexadecimal values, separated by colons (:), for example, 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:abcd:0001:2345 . You can also shorten IPv6 addresses as described in RFC 5952, for example, 2001:db8:85a3::abcd:1:2345 . If the endpoint is an EC2 instance, we recommend that you create an Elastic IP address, associate it with your EC2 instance, and specify the Elastic IP address for IPAddress . This ensures that the IP address of your instance will never change. For more information, see FullyQualifiedDomainName . Constraints: Route 53 can't check the health of endpoints for which the IP address is in local, private, non-routable, or multicast ranges. For more information about IP addresses for which you can't create health checks, see the following documents:

• RFC 5735, Special Use IPv4 Addresses

• RFC 6598, IANA-Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space

• RFC 5156, Special-Use IPv6 Addresses When the value of Type is CALCULATED or CLOUDWATCH_METRIC , omit IPAddress .