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Add section on rate limits due to vpn/proxy.

Donald Webster 2020-10-03 12:20:35 -07:00
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Searches-Indexers-and-Trackers.md

@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ Sometimes indexers will return completely unrelated results, Sonarr will feed in
### Certificate validation
You'll be connecting to most indexers/trackers via https, so you'll need that to work properly on your system. That means your time zone and time both need to be set *correctly*. It also means your system certificates need to be up to date. And if you're using Mono, `MONO_TLS_PROVIDER=legacy` was a fix from *years* ago that should *not* be used anymore, so make sure you're not setting that accidentally.
### Hitting rate limits
If you run your Sonarr through a VPN or proxy, you may be competing with 10s or 100s or 1000s of other people all trying to use services like TVDB, Xem and/or your indexers and trackers. Rate limiting and ddos protection are often done by IP address and your VPN/proxy exit point is *one* IP address. Unless you're in a repressive country like China, Australia or South Africa you don't need to VPN/proxy your Sonarr/Radarr.
## Errors
These are some of the common errors you may see when adding an indexer