Posted by J�rn Dahl-Stamnes on 03/11/06 10:03

I use this code to store the IP addresse:

<?php
$IP = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$query = "update mytable set ipaddr=inet_aton('$IP') where <some code>";
mysql_query ($query);
?>

When I do a 'select inet_ntoa(ipaddr) from mytable' most of the ip-addesses
shows up correctly, but one showed up as "127.255.255.255", which is
meaningless. Comparing to the log, the IP-address was 195.x.x.x

Is the $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] safe to use? Can it be something else that
the actual source of the http request to my server?

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Jørn Dahl-Stamnes
http://www.dahl-stamnes.net/dahls/

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