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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[-] kayohtie@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's kind of irrelevant for a third party resolving where network traffic is coming from. They aren't connecting to OP, OP is connecting to them. Assuming their firewall even supports reverse DNS lookups, it'd actually resolve to something like .res.ispdomain.com or something weird. And since it's dynamic there'd be no consistent domain to give.

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