Member IPs

[Andrew3]

Hey there. I installed the SMF forum (2.0 RC3) about a month ago, and found that every user and guest had the IP of 0.0.0.0

I didn't think too much about it until I had to ban someone and I stopped myself - realising I'd probably ban everyone.

I really need this fixed, but I have NO clue where to start. I've got 2 menu modifications which were only installed a short while ago and shouldn't have affected it.

If there's any more information I can provide.. let me know.

Thanks heaps in advance-

Andrew.

[rd]

Do the people with 0.00... IP address make any posts?

[Andrew3]

Yes. Every single user has 0.0.0.0 as their ip. Including guests and spiders. (And me!)

[Adish - (F.L.A.M.E.R)]

That is something really weird. Can we have the mods you have installed ? Did you touch the IP display area anytime ? What did you last do when this started to happen?

[Andrew3]

This has been happening since the forum was first installed.

1.   Menu Buttons   1.1   [ Uninstall ]
2.   Menu Order   0.2.3   [ Uninstall ]

And I'm using these Core Features:

Advanced Profile Fields
Moderation, Administration and User Logs
Report Generation
Warning System
Search Engine Tracking

I don't get any errors in the error logs about it either.

[JBlaze]

Can you show us a phpinfo file?

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<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Upload that to your root directory, and then give us the link.

[Andrew3]

hxxp:hawkrp.com/info.php [nonactive]

[Andrew3]

Sorry about the URL.. seems my posts are too low..

[JBlaze]

It could be related to the IPv6 bug since your server support IPv6.

I'd ask your host.

[Andrew3]

I host it on my own VPS. Lol

[Adish - (F.L.A.M.E.R)]

Run the following commands in SSH:

I kinda assumed you are on CentOS. If you are on a different one, do let me know.

Run:

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nano /etc/modprobe.conf

Add in or modify if present:

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alias net-pf-10 off

Restart the VPS by running:

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restart

[Andrew3]

I'm using Debian 

[Adish - (F.L.A.M.E.R)]

Have a look here: http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Disabling_IPv6_under_a_2.6_kernel

[Andrew3]

Did it. But it didn't work. :\

I did restart my server as well.. so I'm not sure what's goin on

[Andrew3]

YES. Fixed it partially.

I now am able to see Member's IPs. Not guests however.

What I did was disable ipv6 support in lighttpd.

[Adish - (F.L.A.M.E.R)]

erm, that is a weirdo! You can see member's ip but not guests ? Are you a administrator or moderator in your own forum ?

[ProbablyX]

Had the same problem! I noticed that guests will appear as 0.0.0.0 until they load a new page, even if you disable Ipv6 and restart lighttpd any user that's using the forum will show as 0.0.0.0 until they hit refresh or load a page after that you did the reboot

However, that's not really an issue

[ProbablyX]

Also for the SMF team:

if ipv6 is on, lighttpd reports IPs as fff:192.168.0.1 or something.

I did a test in PHP before writing here and got sumt like :fff:192.168.0.1 but now it shows 192.168.0.1 so the error is probably that fff part