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by maccard 1116 days ago
> The only way I've been able to keep jsonip active is by incorporating Cloudflare. But they don't actually solve the problem. As a corporation, they treat ipv4 addresses like 3rd class citizens.

Don't get me wrong, you're doing the world a service with your service, but why should cloudflare have to handle your problem for free? If you want to resolve your problem, it sounds like it's in your hands - block traffic, or us something like cloudflare/waf. It's not fair that you have to eat the cost, but it's not fair that someone else does either.

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Oh, I never expected Cloudflare to handle the problem for free. I would happily have at least a pro level account with them if they treated ipv4 traffic properly. But they don't expose a request's actual v4 address to the backend. The WAF works amazingly well, but it otherwise breaks a critical part of the service.