On 2014-05-27 12:17, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
At 08:12 2014-05-27, [email protected] wrote:
I'm wondering how to identify the user's IP address so we can apply
tighter security. (MySQL allows you to restrict access by IP
address.)
How do you get the person's true IP (and not just the internal network
IP)? Do you do a TraceRt and someone glean it from that?
What do you mean by "true IP"?
An internal network IP address is a genuine IP address. If such
a user can access the rest of the Internet, there will be an
outward-facing IP address (belonging to a router not the user) which
is used along with a port number (which changes for each Website
session), and this is tracked by the router. One of the names for
this is "IP masquerading".
Hi Gene,
I meant when the guy hits the web database, what is his IP? I wanted to
capture that in my VFP app so as to know where he's coming from. I can
configure the MySQL database to only accept certain IP
addresses---that's the motivation here...to increase security.
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