Indeed, in case of other web server in front of your application you should 
look how to pass smth like REMOTE_HOST or REMOTE_ADDR (CGI variables) to your 
application. 

On 08.02.2012, at 20:05, deitch <[email protected]> wrote:

> Chances are you have a Web server fronting your requests (Apache/
> Nginx), which has the actual IP the request came in on (LOL I just
> wrote "the actual request the IP came in on" before I fixed it; get
> *that* auto-correct).
> 
> The http headers (especially if passed on) will include the hostname,
> will they also include the request IP? You could probably configure
> your front-end server (Apache or Nginx) to add it as an http header in
> the request to the node app server, and then pull it from
> request.headers, if it really matters.
> 
> The more interesting question might be why you are doing this in the
> first place? If this is a classic Web app, you shouldn't need it
> inside your app, and might make it brittle. If it is some type of
> other networking service, I can see how it might be needed. But why do
> you need it, and is there a better solution?
> 
> On Feb 6, 9:04 pm, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 19:15, AJ ONeal <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Can someone suggest a strategy for determining which IP address a request
>>> came through?
>> 
>>> I'm not looking for the IP address of the remote.
>> 
>>> I want the IP address of the server.
>> 
>> You mean the address the connection came in on a server with multiple 
>> addresses?
>> 
>> You can't. It's not a Node limitation, most (all?) operating systems
>> don't provide that information. Bind to each address separately.
> 
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