REMOTE_ADDR Returns address of server

[tandrews1]

I'm just starting to dig into some Perl scripting and have run across the following issue with a script:

Using the environment variable REMOTE_ADDR is returning the address of the server, not the client.

I'm running this on an OS X server running Apache 1.2.27 and the host is a virtual host.

Any ideas?

 

[PaulTEG]

Is the webserver also a network gateway? What's the network topology look like?
--Paul

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[tandrews1]

Nope... just a server. One NIC, one ip address.

The server sits at 10.2.0.19, I'm connecting from a workstation on the same network at 10.2.0.255. Using RETURN_ADDR Perl writes 10.2.0.19 to the log file.

I'm beginning to wonder if this isn't an apache thing?

 

[PaulTEG]

RETURN_ADDR or REMOTE_ADDR?
--Paul

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[tandrews1]

Duh... my bad. REMOTE_ADDR

 

[PaulTEG]

sorted??
--Paul

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[tandrews1]

You lost me Paul.

 

[PaulTEG]

Are you now sorted, or not

if not post some code, but it could be down to your network configuration

--Paul

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[tandrews1]

No... not working. The variable is typed correctly in the script (RETURN_ADDR was just a typo here). REMOTE_ADDR returns the address of the server.

Even the ssi directive in a little java script designed to display the client ip address:

<!--#echo var="REMOTE_ADDR"-->

returns the server ip address. I must be missing something with Apache.

 

[PaulTEG]

a bit of code might help

--Paul

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