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sergsoareslast Wednesday at 10:56 PM0 repliesview on HN

Not expose the server IP is one practice (obfuscation) in a list of several options.

But that alone would not solve the problem being a RCE from HTTP, that is why edge proxy provider like Cloudflare[0] and Fastfy[1] proactivily added protections in his WAF products.

Even cloudflare had an outage trying to protect his customers[3].

- [0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/waf-rules-react-vulnerability/ - [1] https://www.fastly.com/blog/fastlys-proactive-protection-cri... - [2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage/