My website uses Discourse. Initially, it wasn’t protected by Cloudflare and suffered a DDoS attack. Later, I changed the IP address and implemented Cloudflare. However, the website was attacked again by DDoS, seemingly due to a leak of the origin server’s IP. When using Cloudflare CDN, how can we …

You can prevent a lot of leaking by doing the following set up a proxy server like Tinyproxy on a different VPS set the environment variable HTTPS_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY so Discourse will use that (set them in the env section of your app.yml) set NO_PROXY='127.0.0.1, localhost, <internal-network>' S…

How to solve the problem of source IP leakage and DD attacks even when using Cloudflare CDN?

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) September 15, 2024, 7:42am 9

Most providers have an API for that nowadays?

Correct! But that’s a pretty big “if”…

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How to solve the problem of source IP leakage and DD attacks even when using Cloudflare CDN?

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