Vercel treats Oracle server IP as local IP - Connection failing

[naqvi110k]

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Hi everyone,

I'm facing an issue while connecting my Vercel deployment to an Oracle database server.

The problem is that Vercel seems to be treating the Oracle server's IP address as a local/internal IP. Because of this, the request never actually leaves the Vercel environment to reach my backend database.

Has anyone faced this routing issue before? Is there a way to force Vercel to treat this specific IP as an external address or any configuration in vercel.json that can fix this?

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[syedsafeer]

Hi @naqvi110k,

Instead of using the direct IP address of your Oracle server, you should try using DuckDNS.

Create a free domain on DuckDNS and point it to your server's IP. Then, use that DuckDNS hostname in your Vercel environment variables. This way, Vercel will treat it as a regular external domain and route the connection properly through the public internet.

Hope this helps you fix the routing issue!

[naqvi110k]

thanks