[FX.php List] Different REMOTE IP each screen

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

AOL makes a mess in a lot of cases also emails...

Sometimes they cut off mail from certain IP ranges and behave like morons.

ggt667

On 1/13/07, Jonathan Schwartz <jonathan at eschwartz.com> wrote:
>
>  Roger,
>
> Yes, it goes back to AOL.  example IP is : 207.200.116.197
>
> So I guess that the answer is proxy servers.
>
> It's not like this wrinkle does a lot of harm.  I have been capturing the
> remote IP address in a FileMaker log in order to problem solve when a user
> reports problems.  I can still see the thread by using the first three
> number blocks in the IP.  In addition, if the user has successfully created
> a session, I can use the SID as well.
>
> Just wanted to know what was going on.
>
> Thanks
>
> J
>
>
>
> On Jan 12, 2007, at 6:03 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
>
> I am using $_SERVER['HTTP_PC_REMOTE_ADDR'] to log users through a five
> page registration process.  everything appears to be working fine until
> today, when I discovered a user's session where the IP address changed with
> every page over a period of just 2 -3 minutes.  For example:
>         XXX.XXX.XXX.001
>         XXX.XXX.XXX.198
>         XXX.XXX.XXX.055
>         XXX.XXX.XXX.135
>         XXX.XXX.XXX.197
>         etc.
>
> For references the user agent reports:
> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR
> 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
>
> What's going on?
>
>
> The user agent identifies as AOL 9.0.
>
> AOL uses proxy servers, so it's possible that each time he fills out a
> page it's handled by a different proxy server.
>
> Is the xxx.xxx.xxx above all identical?
>
> Does it resolve to an AOL.com IP block?
>
> Roger
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