Hi all, I selfhost private instance of Lemmy for my friends behind Pangolin reverse proxy. I noticed something interesting in the logs; Lemmy specifically gets pinged / tried to access each midnight UTC from what looks like an IP from inside the network. Just out of curiosity, do you have any idea what that could be? I have federation off and private instance on, but maybe it is something from Lemmy network checking if my server is alive? Thank you in advance
Update: So it turns out I was perhaps correct with my hunch. The local IP turns out to be the proxy I set for ports 80 and 443 (it was internal Wireguard IP). Unfortunately my current setup did not allow me to catch which IP the request came from (which is a problem I have to solve later) but the lemmy-proxy container got requests for GET /.well-known/nodeinfo and GET /nodeinfo/2.1. So it is probably something checking my server, likely from the Lemmy network.
Update 2: So after I disabled Pangolin for one night, after I reenabled it, the requests do not come again! So the Lemmy network must have figured out that my instance is set to private and stopped pinging.
An ICMP ping or a web request?
If it’s a web request the first thing that comes to mind is do you have BitWarden?
Yes, I do. It is probably a web request
There was a post a few days ago about someone using it and it pulled a tonne of data. I wonder if it also does polls to check if the link is still valid.
I do not have my Lemmy’s link in the Bitwarden