Discourse Hub Traffic from AWS

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Hello,

Our firewall is picking up traffic from AWS with the User-Agent “Discourse Hub” (can post IP if helpful) to the following paths.

/about.json
/site/basic-info.json
/site/statistics.json

Is this part of discourse itself?

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I would assume that traffic is from the app:

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DiscourseHub working on AWS?

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Yeah that doesn’t make sense to me, but this was my only idea.

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Is there a know list of DiscourseHub public IPs that we should whitelist ? Or is it ok to leave them as blocked, I guess it could be causing functionality issues for any mobile users.

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Every ISP that has human users using DiscourseHub?

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The traffic isn’t coming from the users, it’s from AWS EC2 so appears be a service used by Discourse Hub.

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No, it appears to be false user agent because it comes from AWS.

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Seems very specific, not seeing this traffic anywhere else or anything malcious. Only to our discourse forumand requesting those three forum paths/files.

Is there a way to verify this ?

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It definitely can’t hurt.

It’s possible albeit unlikely that someone is routing their traffic via wireguard or other VPN via a VPS at AWS.

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Seems very like a web service to me, a request is made every 15 minutes. There’s no other traffic indicating browsing the forum from those IPs. A personal VPN would have one and general HTTP requests. It’s only making requests to the three .json endpoints.

Here are the IPs and the reverse DNS hostname.

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I believe this is one of our (CDCK’s) services, though I didn’t expect it to use the Discourse Hub UA.

I’ll check it on Monday :+1:

We do not proxy or monitor Discourse Hub (the user app) traffic, FYI.

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I know. That’s why I was a bit confused.

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Still seeing these within our cloudflare block list. As they’re genuine, could we get a confirmed list of IPs/paths for our firewall rules to allow ?