Re: alias address in REMOTE_ADDR

[Mike Mackintosh <mike.mackintosh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 12, 2012, at 2:54, Jim Lucas <lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 5/11/2012 10:57 PM, 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.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Csaba
>> 
> 
> What IP address is your Apache bound to?  You eth0 or one of the alias IPs?
> 
> Jim
> 
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Do a netstat -ab and see what ip/ports apache is listening on. 

Mike Mackintosh
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www.highonphp.com
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