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Google Listed the IP address of my webserver even though its hidden behind CloudFlare

So I just happened to be googling my website and found that google some how listed the real IP address of my server. Is there a way to reverse and stop this from happening again?

All my DNS records are proxied by CloudFlare.

If it helps I am running a Mybb Forum.

Honestly the only thing I can think of is maybe it was this plugin I had installed?
https://community.mybb.com/thread-202483.html
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(Jul 27, 2020 07:36 AM)Snow Wrote:  So I just happened to be googling my website and found that google some how listed the real IP address of my server. Is there a way to reverse and stop this from happening again?

All my DNS records are proxied by CloudFlare.

If it helps I am running a Mybb Forum.

Honestly the only thing I can think of is maybe it was this plugin I had installed?
https://community.mybb.com/thread-202483.html

Not knowing your exact situation, it's possible that Google crawled your direct IP address if you didn't already have that blocked. On your backend server, whitelist Cloudflare IPs (https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/) and drop all other web traffic.

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(Jul 27, 2020 07:54 AM)Egregious Wrote:  Not knowing your exact situation, it's possible that Google crawled your direct IP address if you didn't already have that blocked. On your backend server, whitelist Cloudflare IPs (https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/) and drop all other web traffic.

Good idea. I can't believe this happened. I was wondering how my server kept getting hit by DDoS attacks.

Thank you again for your feedback I greatly appreciate this.
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If you run it on a VPS you should use Egregious' advice at iptables level. If you're running Apache, you should use mod_evasive (dunno what its nginx/openlitespeed variant called).
You see, Doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs.
If God saw what any of us did that night he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew... God doesn't make the world this way.
We do.
If either of you in interested in helping me out configure this firewall I would be willing to pay. Just worried I might block myself out of my centos 7 server and I really don't want to spend hours setting up my website again.
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https://gist.github.com/Manouchehri/cdd4...596e7c3c5a
You see, Doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs.
If God saw what any of us did that night he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew... God doesn't make the world this way.
We do.
What types of attacks are you getting ??? A lot of them can be stopped with iptables and dos deflate and server shield. If you need help feel free to drop me a pm and i will help you out.


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