Re: alias address in REMOTE_ADDR

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Saturday, May 12, 2012, shiplu wrote:

>
>
> On Saturday, May 12, 2012, Tóth Csaba wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I've run into a curious problem, not even really sure it's PHP, but
>> that's where
>> I caught it, so here it is:
>>
>> I have two servers hanging on the net, without proxies. Let's call them
>> Server1
>> and Server2. Server1 has multiple IP addresses, configured as aliases. My
>> problem:
>> When I do a wget --spider from 1 to 2, I get the eth0 (not alias) address
>> in
>> Apache's accesslog on Server2. But when I do a file_get_contents(
>> http://server2.tld),
>> and observe the $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] on Server2, I get one of the
>> alias IP addresses
>> back. What can cause this? I really need the eth0 IP address back in
>> REMOTE_ADDR.
>>
>>
>
> On server2 make sure the metric of both interface in the routing table is
> not same. Same metric can cause this behavior. Change the metric of eth0 to
> a lower value than the other. Then try again.
>
>
Correction. "On server2" should be "On server1".


-- 
Shiplu.Mokadd.im
ImgSign.com | A dynamic signature machine
Innovation distinguishes between follower and leader

[Index of Archives]     [PHP Home]     [Apache Users]     [PHP on Windows]     [Kernel Newbies]     [PHP Install]     [PHP Classes]     [Pear]     [Postgresql]     [Postgresql PHP]     [PHP on Windows]     [PHP Database Programming]     [PHP SOAP]

  Powered by Linux