REMOTE_ADDR Weirdness

Top Page
Attachments:
Message as email
+ (text/plain)
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Phil Mattison
Date:  
Subject: REMOTE_ADDR Weirdness
Well, better to know you're SOL than to wander around with false hope.
Sounds to me like a bug all dressed up with nowhere to go.
--Phil M.

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Sheldon <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:42 PM
Subject: RE: REMOTE_ADDR Weirdness


> > Yes, auto routing by linux. Go out the most direct route, short of
> > calling 127.0.0.1. I have a similar setup and if I don't go out to the
> > router from eth0 first, it'll go out on eth0:0 to eth:0's address.
> >
>
> Correct.
>
> In short, you're SOL.
>
> Just because the virtual host is on IP X, doesn't mean that *outbound*
> connections will go out on that IP. The REMOTE_ADDR value you are seeing

is
> correct, it's just not what you expected it to be.
>
> Michael J. Sheldon
> http://www.desertraven.com/
> Make a fast friend, adopt a greyhound!
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list -
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings:
> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss