My suggestion is that Roller should record the entire IP address list in the "X-FORWARDED-FOR" header because from my environment also, only the Load Balancer IP address is shown.
> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 13:39:15 -0400 > Subject: Re: How does Roller capture IP address / Remote host? > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > I believe we simply use the Servlet API method request.getRemoteAddr() > to get IP addresses. > > Where are you seeing these IP addresses? In the referrer logs? > > - Dave > > > > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Matthew C Huth <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm hoping someone can provide some info, direction, documentation > > regarding how Roller captures IP address. > > > > 1. Sometimes I see an IP address, sometimes I see a machine host like > > "usmkejareick.na.home.ra-int.com". Why is that? > > 2. The main issue we are currently having is we are seeing the same IP > > address for all comments posted. My hunch is that is because we are using > > a load balancer in front of the app servers. However, when I put in the > > web address of the app server and bypass the load balancer, I'm still > > seeing the same IP address in all postings. Weird. Thoughts? > > > > > > Matthew C. Huth > > E-mail: [email protected] > > Apache Roller 4.0.1
