Title: IP Address Changes
Last modified: February 28, 2022

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# IP Address Changes

 *  Resolved [NetzzJD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netzzjd/)
 * (@netzzjd)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ip-address-changes/)
 * Why does the plugin’s IP Address for the API Key keep changing every few days?
   I’ll notice that the reviews aren’t updated and it’s because the API Key is not
   valid due to the IP change. I have to keep adding various different IP Addresses
   to my allowed list and update and clear the cache to work again weekly. Please
   advise.

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 *  Plugin Author [Noah Hearle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/designextreme/)
 * (@designextreme)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ip-address-changes/#post-15412967)
 * [@netzzjd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netzzjd/) It’s unusual for a web
   server to change its IP address like this. I would contact your hosting provider
   for an explanation – or change to one that has a fixed IP.
 * An alternative solution: you can remove this API restriction altogether and set
   the daily request limit to 100. This is mentioned in the plugin’s recommendations
   as an additional step to avoid usage beyond the free inclusive allowance.
 *  Thread Starter [NetzzJD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netzzjd/)
 * (@netzzjd)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ip-address-changes/#post-15416735)
 * Thank you for your response. The IP being shown on the plugin settings page is
   not our web hosting server’s address though. We do have/use a static IP address
   for hosting. I assumed these IP numbers came from your plugin. How is the plugin
   reading and displaying that IP address setting? Could it be obscured and not 
   accurate through a firewall or CDN on our server?
 *  Plugin Author [Noah Hearle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/designextreme/)
 * (@designextreme)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ip-address-changes/#post-15418607)
 * [@netzzjd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netzzjd/) If this is the case,
   I do recommend using the answer in the second paragraph. This will allow you 
   to connect through any IP and add a maximum request level (to avoid issues if
   the API Key is exposed).
 * The logic used to collect the server’s IP is pretty good now, much improved from
   the first version, yet it will never be perfect. It reads the IP from the server-
   side using one of three PHP commands. Sometimes the API checks the server’s IPv4
   or IPv6 or there could be some other issue that would come about by using a proxy.
   If you do have another way to find the actual IP or IPs, please try these as 
   restrictions first and then remove the restriction entirely if that doesn’t work.
 * Here is a [direct link](https://console.cloud.google.com/google/maps-apis/quotas)
   to Quotas for Places API. Ensure your current project is set there and in the
   first section, just change _Requests per day_ to 100.
 *  Thread Starter [NetzzJD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netzzjd/)
 * (@netzzjd)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ip-address-changes/#post-15419152)
 * Thank you. I will give that a shot.

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ip-address-changes/#post-15419152)
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