# Troubleshooting a 429 (rate limit)

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**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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Look at the nginx logs and see what IP addresses are there. Are they all the IP address of the magic DDOS protector that the data center provides?

That snippet **might** be a solution. Before fooling with doing it that way, you might go into the container and do it by hand to see if it works. (Or, if that doesn’t make sense to you, just blindly copy it and see if it works 🙂 )

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