All of our servers, site and Discourse community (discussions.ftw.in) sit behind Cloudflare. Can we set at the Discourse server level to only allow Cloudflare IPs and deny all other IP traffic? We’ve been under a DDoS layer 7 attack and learned our main site IP was exposed. To fix this, we update…

Only allow Cloudflare IPs for Discourse server

pain September 22, 2017, 3:15am 15

they probably got your ip by posting an ip logger
my post mentioned here where i had same problem Disable discourse from crawling links

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