Re: get ip

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"Randy Webb" <HikksNotAtHome@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Philippe l. Balmanno wrote:
| > So you read it.
|
| I scanned it enough to know what it was about.
|
| > And I assume are dismissing the relevance to security
| > scans all-be-it if the access is through a proxy then
| > there is no way to get the originating IP.
|
| That makes it irrelevant. And that is what I said. So, you agree
with me?
|
| But I fail to see how an IP address has *any* bearing on security as
it
| doesn't unless you control both ends of the connection.
|
| > I wonder if your objections to the OP
| > seeking the info have an ulterior motive?
|
| Now thats funny. I have no objections to the OP, I have no
objections to
| people attempting to get a useless, worthless IP Address. I gave a
| correct answer. Perhaps it is you that has an ulterior motive in
trying
| to convince someone they can do something that they can't reliably
do?
|
|
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*"So, you agree with me?"*
No - not really, a cursory inquiry that produces a valid IP is of some
value (What the intent of that is - is another question).
Those that are not valid or are of proxies can be discarded based on
the purpose of the inquiry.
Granted as the article said, the result this is not 100% guaranteed.
The OP never suggest what his purpose/intent was for acquiring IPs
from hits to his website.
As his original post mentioned nothing about security:
"Hi, how can I know the ip from the pc who is visiting mi page
Thanks"
I can't figure why you assumed it did.
"But I fail to see how an IP address has *any* bearing on security
as it doesn't unless you control both ends of the connection."
As far as your assumption that *"I gave a correct answer." *, you gave
an answer.
Your assumption *"Perhaps it is you that has an ulterior motive in
trying to convince someone they can do something that they can't
reliably do?"*.
I believe that the correct answer for this situation is determined by
the OP.
Further, you should allow for other options and opinions. Seeing the
OP's question from a business perspective, I would assume if the hits
are from businesses with static IPs a culmination of such IPs would be
a valuable tool for future business direct mailing. On the negative
side, I suspect future spam is possible.



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