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		koromak on Dec 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses Ironically this is exactly how cloudflare handles its spam prevention. Have a dynamic IP? Its Russian roulette until cloudflare decides you're dangerous. My favorite experience was building a website for a client, putting cloudflare in front of it, then discovering cloudflare blocked the IP of our client's office from seeing their own website.

toastal on Dec 29, 2022 | [–]

One of the cool things about SourceHut Pages is that they block reverse proxying through Cloudflare because of shit like this.

bombolo on Dec 30, 2022 | [–]

At least you've learnt quickly they were blocking wanted traffic.

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