ip address question (trouble with remote_addr)

[ojorus]

Hi.
I have a problem when I use the $_SERVER['remote_addr'].
I'm testing a script, and the strange thing is that remote_addr returns an
ip-address only sometimes, and not always. Why can that be?
Are there any other (better) methods of getting the ip-address?

Ojorus

[Erwin Moller]

ojorus wrote:

Hi.
I have a problem when I use the $_SERVER['remote_addr'].
I'm testing a script, and the strange thing is that remote_addr returns an
ip-address only sometimes, and not always. Why can that be?
Are there any other (better) methods of getting the ip-address?

Ojorus

Hi Ojorus,

That is suprising because that IP is used to send the response to.
Can you reproduce the empty $_SERVER['remote_addr'] yourself?

What setup are you using? PHP-version/OS/webserver?

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Erwin Moller]

Erwin Moller wrote:

ojorus wrote:

Hi.
I have a problem when I use the $_SERVER['remote_addr'].
I'm testing a script, and the strange thing is that remote_addr returns
an ip-address only sometimes, and not always. Why can that be?
Are there any other (better) methods of getting the ip-address?

Ojorus
Hi Ojorus,

That is suprising because that IP is used to send the response to.
Can you reproduce the empty $_SERVER['remote_addr'] yourself?

What setup are you using? PHP-version/OS/webserver?

One addition: according to
http://koivi.com/apache-iis-php-server-array.php
both IIS and Apache support remote_adres.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[ojorus]

Hi!
The server where the php-script is located is Apache/1.3.33. (Shared host)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.0.4

When I test the script locally on my apache-installation, everything works
fine. But when I upload it to the server I use, the strange error occour;
the IP-address is only returned from time to time, and not always.
It also seems that when the server is quite busy, the problem increases.

I don't have a clue how to solve this...

Ojorus

"Erwin Moller"
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ojorus wrote:

Hi.
I have a problem when I use the $_SERVER['remote_addr'].
I'm testing a script, and the strange thing is that remote_addr returns
an
ip-address only sometimes, and not always. Why can that be?
Are there any other (better) methods of getting the ip-address?

Ojorus

Hi Ojorus,

That is suprising because that IP is used to send the response to.
Can you reproduce the empty $_SERVER['remote_addr'] yourself?

What setup are you using? PHP-version/OS/webserver?

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Gordon Burditt]

>I have a problem when I use the $_SERVER['remote_addr'].

I'm testing a script, and the strange thing is that remote_addr returns an
ip-address only sometimes, and not always. Why can that be?
Are there any other (better) methods of getting the ip-address?

Some IP addresses have no reverse DNS. If it's intermittent for
the SAME IP address on different hits, maybe you're having trouble
with DNS lookups.

Gordon L. Burditt