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		detaro on June 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day ... If they made actual requests that went through, a connection got established. That won't happen with a faked source.

Wingy on June 12, 2020 | [–]

Ah okay, thanks for helping me learn :)

lgats on June 12, 2020 | [–]

Could be the IP address OP is showing is actually from an X-Forwarded header or other proxy header (but not the actual source of the packet).

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