Restrict MongoDB access to Netlify web app

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Hi there!

I have connected a web app hosted on Netlify with a MongoDB Atlas database.

In that database I can restrict access to specific IP adresses. Apart from my local IP address, I only want the netlify servers from by web app access the database. (Currently, I have added 0.0.0.0/0 which grants access to anyone with the credentials.) For this, I need to find out their IP adresses. I have followed the instructions at Finding the IP addresses for Netlify’s nameservers. But when I did that, the database connection was not possible anymore.

Specifically, the domain servers are:

And their IP adresses are:

  • 198.51.44.1
  • 198.51.45.1
  • 198.51.44.65
  • 198.51.45.65

I have added them to the MongoDB network access:

mongodb-ips-full
mongodb-ips-full691×513 58.9 KB

(I have crossed out my own IP address)

When I removed 0.0.0.0/0, access stopped working.

Maybe the domain servers are not actually the correct servers here?

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Adding in the nameservers won’t help as content isn’t served from those addresses. Content is served from the CDN IPs which are numerous and always changing.

A quick search through the forums on this topic would have provided you the following simple answer

There are other methods described through the forums should you care to read.