# Troubleshooting a 429 (rate limit)

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubleshooting-a-429-rate-limit/81060>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [February 20, 2018, 6:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubleshooting-a-429-rate-limit/81060 "2018-02-20T18:20:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 6:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubleshooting-a-429-rate-limit/81060/1 "2018-02-20T18:20:41Z")

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One of my forums went down yesterday, first with a blank page then displaying 429’s. Sam thinks it may be possible that my proxy is not configured correctly - anyone know what the best way is to ascertain whether IP addresses are being handed over correctly to Discourse?

_I’m pretty sure it is set up correctly (as I have `option forwardfor` set in HAProxy and users’ IP addresses correctly show up in the admin CP) but I’d like to check Discourse’s end just in case._

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