It appears that it was something in the router. After logging in to the router and rebooting it, the logs are again correct. I still don't understand why it worked correctly for 3+ years and then changed suddenly. Thanks to all for the suggestions. If anyone knows if there is a way for apache itself to do this please let me know. Thanks, G > NAT would present this result. Perhaps they changed something on the > network end? > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Greg Jeziorski [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] >> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 8:01 PM >> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: RE: [users@httpd] Access_log shows incorrect remote host > address >> >> Floor, >> >> That does make sense, and I am accessing the website from my external >> address. Apache has been logging the remote host address and not the >> router >> address for several years and now all of a sudden, it doesn't. What's >> interesting is that the address of the router that is being logged is a >> private address in a different subnet from the private address of the > web >> server. Is there any function/feature within Apache that causes it to > log >> the "previous hop" address and not the remote host? The router is not >> doing >> any proxying, only NAT. When things like this change for no apparent >> reason, I get concerned. >> >> Thanks, >> Greg >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: FloorFLUX [mailto:floorflux@xxxxxxxxx] >> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 5:03 PM >> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Access_log shows incorrect remote host >> address >> >> >> Greg, >> >> When you access your webserver, are you using an external IP address? >> If so, It's going to log your hit as coming from your router no matter >> where it's coming from on the lan because your outgoing request is >> going through the router. If you access it via an internal IP address >> (perhaps that's how you're doing it with the other applications), then >> your request doesn't go through the router, and your internal address >> will be preserved. >> >> Let me know if that makes any sense or if it's inaccurate... >> >> --Floor >> >> >> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:49:30 -0700, greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > I'm running Apache 2.0.52 on Fedora Core 3. I am running webalizer > and >> I >> noticed that a couple of days ago all httpd logs are reporting the same > IP >> address for the requesting host, the address of my router. Logs from >> other >> applications (FTP, Sendmail) all report the correct address of remote >> host. >> If I telnet to port 80 from another server on the LAN, the httpd logs > show >> the address of the server. I searched the FAQ and the archives but > didn't >> find anything like this. Any thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Greg >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server >> Project. >> > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server > Project. >> See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server > Project. >> See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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