# The IP address in Discourse’s user information shows CloudFlare’s IP address

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**Category:** Sysadmins\
**Tags:** chinese-translation\
**Created:** [May 19, 2023, 12:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-ip-address-in-discourse-s-user-information-shows-cloudflare-s-ip-address-discourse-ip-cloudflare-ip/265556 "2023-05-19T12:49:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![sober](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sober/32/344783_2.png) [@sober](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sober)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-ip-address-in-discourse-s-user-information-shows-cloudflare-s-ip-address-discourse-ip-cloudflare-ip/265556/2 "2024-02-26T13:28:18Z")

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Boss, is this using CloudFlare’s CDN proxy acceleration? Why am I always getting a 502 error from CloudFlare to the origin server? It occasionally works. The origin server is in China. Is it a network issue, an SSL certificate issue, or are there any CloudFlare configurations to pay attention to?

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