I aked a company for API access and they asked for IPs to whitelist (lemmy.world)

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How do I find out what IPs to give, my IP doesnt stay the same? The local IP is hardly the one they want, it wouldnt make sense I think.

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[-] Archer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

It means you’re doing boutique instead of scalable, and/or they don’t know how to deal with the traffic and auth infrastructure

[-] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

scalable has cost and you only want to engage costs when it comes with benefits. Preventing non legitimate traffic is complementary to scalability. Just don't pay for illegitimate traffic...

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