TL;DR: If you run Zen behind DigitalOcean App Platform and IP-based features misbehave, upgrade past 1.7.11 and set the proxy header config. Fixed in @aikidosec/firewall 1.7.11, which added support for `do-connecting-ip`

## Fix
1. If you run Zen behind DigitalOcean App Platform and IP-based features misbehave, upgrade past 1.7.11 and set the proxy header config.
   Expected: this specific failure stops.
2. Broader lesson: whenever IP-based rate limiting or blocking acts on the wrong address, check what your platform actually sends.
   Expected: this specific failure stops.

## Details
Fixed in @aikidosec/firewall 1.7.11, which added support for `do-connecting-ip` as the client IP source, configured via an environment variable (see docs/proxy.md in the repo). Cloudflare uses CF-Connecting-IP, AWS ALB appends to X-Forwarded-For, and DO uses do-connecting-ip. Zen's proxy docs list the supported headers.

## When to use
You hit exactly this: Zen rate limiting sees the wrong IP on DigitalOcean; it reads do-connecting-ip, not x-forwarded-for in Zen.

## When not to use
A different error, or the same symptom in a different tool. This page only covers the failure above.

## Compatibility
Zen (versions mentioned here: 1.7.11).

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## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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    "https://github.com/AikidoSec/firewall-node/issues/696"
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