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#189585 - 15/11/2003 05:31 IP Address weirdness
CrackersMcCheese
pooh-bah

Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 2489
I started a basic forum over on www.all-forums.net for a local group and it seems that myself and other users have the same IP address of 62.252.128.7

Now am I missing something? How can we have the same ip address while on at the same time? We live 2 miles from one another with the same isp if that helps explain it.

Thats not even any of our ip addresses!!

It makes polls impossible.

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#189586 - 15/11/2003 06:30 Re: IP Address weirdness [Re: CrackersMcCheese]
tman
carpal tunnel

Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
Because that's a transparent web cache. 62.252.128.7 is cache4-renf.server.ntli.net

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#189587 - 15/11/2003 06:35 Re: IP Address weirdness [Re: tman]
CrackersMcCheese
pooh-bah

Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 2489
I'm sorry, I don't know what that means!

Am I stuck with it?

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#189588 - 15/11/2003 06:40 Re: IP Address weirdness [Re: CrackersMcCheese]
tman
carpal tunnel

Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
NTL have a machine between you and the internet caching web pages. It's to save bandwidth since chances are that you'll be accessing a lot of pages that other people have recently looked at. Since they'll be most likely the same, it can save a copy and then just give you that instead. Not sure how to bypass it though as I don't use NTL...

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#189589 - 15/11/2003 06:47 Re: IP Address weirdness [Re: CrackersMcCheese]
tman
carpal tunnel

Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
Don't think there is much you can do apart from try and use another cache. It's only sidestepping the problem since you'll be stuck with another IP address. There's a page about it here.

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#189590 - 15/11/2003 07:17 Re: IP Address weirdness [Re: tman]
CrackersMcCheese
pooh-bah

Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 2489
Thanks for the info. I have changed the settings to allow only registered members to vote in polls. It now tracks User IDs as opposed to IP addresses

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