Stephen Turner wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Dave Reinhardt wrote:
>
> >
> > Jeremy said:
> > >>Most ISPs (good ones) have a ten-to-one ratio of users and incoming
> > lines (bad ones have even more users per line).
> >
> > Is the report then listing the name or IP#'s of the ISP rather than the
> > domainName of the requesting Browser owner?
> >
>
> It's the IP of the computer which requested the file from you. This may be
> a dynamically allocated IP for the user, or just a proxy server.
The proxy server is an even better example of the problems that can happen here.
For example, the local university runs most of it's connections through a proxy
server. So one of the 18,000 students could hit your site from a computer lab on
campus and all you'll get in your logs is the IP number of the proxy server that
they are running through.
Even if it does provide a unique IP number for each computer on campus, you
still have as many as 18,000 students (not to mention faculty and staff) using
only about 250 computer, so it's very hard to tell when one user stops and
another starts.
--
Jeremy Wadsack
OutQuest Magazine
a Wadsack-Allen publication
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