What is this? Googlebot with a Cloudflare IP

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Going through my web server log, I found this:

2a06:98c0:3600::103 - - [26/May/2023:19:03:10 +0800] “GET /path/to/page HTTP/1.1” 304 - “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)”

Excerpt from the Whois report for the IP:

inet6num:       2a06:98c0:3000::/36
netname:        CLOUDFLARENET-EU
descr:          Cloudflare, Inc.

If someone can explain it, I will appreciate it.

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Are you restoring original visitor IPs?

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I apologise - yes, I should have mentioned that in my initial post already. I have the remote IP module set up. So, usually Googlebot ips are from Google in my web server logs.

This one, however, is confusing.

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