When making a post, its not my IP address displayed on the forum ??
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Hi,
I’ve just noticed that when posting something on the forum, its not my IP address displayed on the lower right corner…
Why is that ?
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Aha, I just noticed its a Cloudflare address that is used…
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That’s a bug in the forum software.
When the request comes in, it’s proxied by CloudFlare, who in turn passes the request on to the actual Feathercoin.com server. They do this so they can stop DDoS attacks before they actually reach the server.
To do this, the administrator must (should?) block access from non CloudFlare IPs, AND it should ignore the IP address in any logging, preferring the value of the HTTP_REFERER header, which will be set by CloudFlare and will contain the originating IP address. I’m sure it would be a trivial fix for Bushstar, but since we’re switching forum software we can safely assume it’s not a priority.
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I thought it was something like that.
Good to know that i’m not part of a man-in-the-middle thing…