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Rate Limited. You sent too many messages to this pad so it disconnected you.

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Since May 13, 2026.

  • #90 by @copilot-swe-agent — open

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Description

Bug
After that a second person connects, be it in the same subnet or Internet, then me (and the other person) we get disconnected with the said message.

Logs
Just before the disconnects, syslog gets a fast cascade of many (15-20) warnings as this:

Jan  7 08:25:05 etherpad run.sh[1663]: ether/ep_webrtc#33[33m[2021-01-07 08:25:05.751] 
[WARN] message - ether/ep_webrtc#33[39mDropped message, unknown COLLABROOM Data  Type RTC_MESSAGE

Others affected
The titled issue is mentioned, here: #4340 and the culprit was some other plugin (ex. ep_cursortrace)

Platform/Reproduction
For the record, I am on proxmox with https://www.turnkeylinux.org/etherpad (1.8.6, on nginx), either with lxc or kvm.
If also it is of any importance, my stun server seems to work fine but my turn one, probably not...

Workaround
At the settings.json, as mentioned and in the #4340, increase maximum number of chanes per IP (commitRateLimiting.points) to more than 20 (relevant to how many messages you get cascading on logs). I have set 100 to be safe...

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