# How to modify global setting for \`ip\_10\_secs\_limit\`

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-modify-global-setting-for-ip-10-secs-limit/237623>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [August 30, 2022, 7:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-modify-global-setting-for-ip-10-secs-limit/237623 "2022-08-30T19:05:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 12:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-modify-global-setting-for-ip-10-secs-limit/237623/3 "2022-09-01T00:02:34Z")

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Thanks @pfaffman

iCloud may have been a false alarm; I’ve had an additional report from a Chrome user also seeing this. Surprisingly, this issue has only just started to occur, despite no changes to server configuration etc. (running `2.9.0.beta9`), so I’m wondering why this has started to occur.

> You can override that setting with an env variable

Meaning, I can set `ip_10_secs_limit` as an env variable on the server? Is this all lower cased, does it need a prefix? I was confused because the error message showed `ip_10_secs_limit`, but the Discourse source code showed `GlobalSetting.max_reqs_per_ip_per_10_seconds`, so I’m not sure which variable name to use.

Thanks again!

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