User has issue connecting to Railway service from Dominican Republic
I have a user who is trying to connect from DR. No one else seems to be experiencing this issue and I am doing what I can to debug it remotely, but in short I see (failed) when he tries to connect to https://central-universal.up.railway.app/ for example, where I see "ok"
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N/Acould be something like an isp or government firewall, ask them to try with accessing the site with a vpn?
Thanks, doing what I can will recommend he try a VPN. Very hard to debug remotely and I don't have any server errors
there really wouldn’t be any errors if they are getting firewalled before their traffic reaches your app
So if that happens
I mean what am I supposed to do?
Like instead of a direct railway.up link is there something that a firewall might be less likely to block?
its likely their firewall is doing an ip block, so maybe stick cloudflare in front of the app?
Thanks
Are there any guides to doing this?
I'm a little new to CF and what to search for if I need to take this path
do you own a custom domain? you need one for cloudflare
Yeah so
Let's imagine I have a custom domain
I set it up on CF some way
And then I tell CF to point to Railway .up service domain?
yeah via the cname railway will give you when you put your custom domain into your service
Ah I see
So it's just domain forwarding
Strange but I suppose that also helps with DDoS or other related concerns
yeah as long as you leave the orange cloud enabled
Alright, thanks!
youd need this docs section if you decide to use cloudflare https://docs.railway.app/guides/public-networking#provider-specific-instructions
Appreciate it thanks