Server variables Remote_ADDR / REMOTE_HOST ? - Difference

[Jawahar Rajan]

All,
I am trying to log the IP address of visitors to my site using ASP as
follows

<%
Dim strIPAdd
Dim srtHostName

srtIPAdd = ServerVariables("REMOTE_ADDR")
strHostName = ServerVaraibles("REMOTE_HOST")
%>

Both return the same result i.e an IP address. I was hoping that the
REMOTE_HOST would return the name of the server.
I tried to use HOST_NAME but again i got an IP address

Any thoughts on how to get the name itself ? are people masking the name for
security reasons?

Thanks
Jawahar

[Chris Barber]

See:
http://www.webenalysis.com/servervariables.asp

for a bit more info on server variables.

Chris.

"Jawahar Rajan" <jr****@nc.rr.com> wrote in message
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All,
I am trying to log the IP address of visitors to my site using ASP as
follows

<%
Dim strIPAdd
Dim srtHostName

srtIPAdd = ServerVariables("REMOTE_ADDR")
strHostName = ServerVaraibles("REMOTE_HOST")
%>

Both return the same result i.e an IP address. I was hoping that the
REMOTE_HOST would return the name of the server.
I tried to use HOST_NAME but again i got an IP address

Any thoughts on how to get the name itself ? are people masking the name for security reasons?

Thanks
Jawahar