Avatar Proxy and CDN Hot-Link Protection

I appreciate your help. After many decades of working in IT development and support, vague questions and responses create more work than necessary. Based on your experience, I think you would agree.

The CDN is only set up for the S3 bucket.

I did check the CDN logs for the Discourse IP related to the 403 errors before submitting the original topic. It was not in the log files.

Based on your comments, I went back and reanalyzed the logs. After reviewing the largest IP offenders, I found that the top couple are gateways for the hosting company.

The challenge is that I do not want to keep track of the Digital Ocean’s gateway IP addresses so my Discourse server can display images correctly.

Thank you for the assist.