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Yuck. Why would this happen? I'm running wwwthreads on Linux using Xitami server. I just looked at the user database, and everyone registered to wwwthreads from the same IP address. Why would this happen? Also, a lot of my e-mailed passwords are bouncing back (mostly from aol, although I can e-mail them directly just fine.) Any ideas?
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Sounds like a proxy server issue. The possibilities I can see are:
- All of your users really *are* from the same IP address, like AOL users behind a giant proxy server... how many users do you have? - Your system has an incoming proxy or firewall somewhere?
IP addresses are not guaranteed to be unique to users, in any case.
-- Steve Linberg Systems Programmer &c, National Center on Adult Literacy
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Well, so far I have 93 users. About a quarter of them are from AOL. I fixed the first problem, where the AOL users weren't getting my e-mail. I forgot to set up my ISP as the host to route through, and I guess the messages were being sent directly from my computer, and AOL was bouncing the messages because it couldn't resolve the host.
I don't have a proxy or firewall set up on my computer, but when you mentioned that, I realized I have IP masquerading set up so I can use the internet from my Win98 machine too. (Why waste it?) So you are right. That is probably acting like a proxy server and assigning everyone the same IP address. Thank you for your reply, and I will try and get this straightened out. []/w3timages/icons/smile.gif[/]
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i didn't change anything, and about two weeks later, the ip addresses started working properly. strange, huh?
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I run IP Masq at home on the 2.2 Kernel as well. It has nothing to do with with the gathering of IP addresses. You should write a little CGI script to see if $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'} is reporting correctly.
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