Flask App Keep Getting Called From 192.168.0.x

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but i noticed that my app is getting call from 192.168.0.x. i suspect this causing my memory usage keep climbing up.

this is a new site, i don't think anyone know about it yet. I don't know what i did wrong.

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looks like you’re getting targeted, i’ve never seen this before. does your service have a public link?

what do you mean by targeted? yes it has

someone has a bot trying to get into your app
unless you have anything private in there, you’ll be fine

ah yes, someone tried to buy my site once but i declined. i was suspecting this as well.

then earlier today i implemented rate limiter. it stopped some requests (the 429 above in the screnshot) but i couldn't access the url that got 429 too myself.

Looks like they’re just iterating through a dictionary of words trying to find an endpoint
I wouldn’t worry about it since you’ve implemented a rate limit

it does look like some silly bot, but it's 192.168.0.x because that's railways proxy and you haven't trusted the proxy header X-Forwarded-For that shows the origin ip

ah thanks @Brody i've been wondering why it shows 192.168.0.x. how do i trust the proxy header so i can rate limit it properly?

nearly every framework in existence has a "trust proxy" or "real ip" middleware that looks at some proxy headers and updates the request object with the values from some proxy headers

thanks! i'm trying it now
after printing the user agent, turns out the request came from moz crawler. i setup crawler rules in the robots.txt now it's fine.

perfect, glad you found a solution!