Help! 127.0.0.1?

Thanks DJM :) That's the same conclusion I came to, we were discussing it on IRC and the unanimous vote was that that email was a load of poo.

The thing is, it's never a member with that addy, it's always a guest. I suppose they could be looking over the site and have some kind of privacy software running, but it strikes me as very odd, because as a guest, the only thing you can see is the welcome page, there are no threads to read or anything else, so it seems strange to me that they would be looking at the welcome msg as often as they are. We're up to at least 5 times in the last 24 hours now.

More than anything else, I don't understand why this is happening, therefore don't know whether I should be concerned about it or not. :confused:

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Originally posted here by debwalin
Thanks DJM :) That's the same conclusion I came to, we were discussing it on IRC and the unanimous vote was that that email was a load of poo.

The thing is, it's never a member with that addy, it's always a guest. I suppose they could be looking over the site and have some kind of privacy software running, but it strikes me as very odd, because as a guest, the only thing you can see is the welcome page, there are no threads to read or anything else, so it seems strange to me that they would be looking at the welcome msg as often as they are. We're up to at least 5 times in the last 24 hours now.

More than anything else, I don't understand why this is happening, therefore don't know whether I should be concerned about it or not. :confused:

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If they are just 'lurking', I wouldn't pay it much attention. It's when you start getting attacked by some clown spoofing localhost is when the fun really starts. :p

Cheers:

Lol...but I want to stop it before we start getting attacked by some clown spoofing localhost :p

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Originally posted here by debwalin
Lol...but I want to stop it before we start getting attacked by some clown spoofing localhost :p

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I can understand that Deb, but how much control do you have? You said the fourm is hosted, isn't it the responsibility of the host company to protect it's servers?

Cheers:

http://www.inetprivacy.com/a4proxy/

"Advanced features allow you to actively hide yourself while surfing: A4Proxy can generate a fake IP address for each request, selectively modify HTTP variables, block cookies, and more."

It all could be something like this... I am going to try to find a copy and see if it fools my BB.

Hey, thanks CGX :D That would be great. Let me know what happens, would you? I know that I have used Proxomitron before for awhile, and it didn't fool my forums, so if you found something that did, it would be interesting at the least.

I have set my proxy to my webserver before and then browsed like that. It acturally works, but it only lets you surf what is on your own server. And it only needs to be running a web server, no proxy. But it doesn't change the IP to 127.0.0.1 on my server. It still detects me as my normal IP address. Maybe you should try setting your website as your proxy anyways, browse a bit, log in and check the IP. Something might happen different on your server.

I don't really see how it would be 127.0.0.1, though. Even on my server when I browse, my server's IP shows up instead of a loopback IP. All I can say is that it is very strange. Good luck finding the cause, but I don't think A4Proxy is behind it... I think that their Fake IP address is acturally just selecting a random proxy for each connection, but I've never used it so I don't know 100% for sure...

I think you're right Tim. It hasn't happened in the last 12 hours or so that I know of, but then no one has really been on the forum in the last 12 hours either, at least none of the admin, so I'm not certain. I'm hoping it was just a glitch somewhere and something odd happened a few times and it won't happen again. The power of positive thinking, right? :D

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I don't really see how it would be 127.0.0.1, though. Even on my server when I browse, my server's IP shows up instead of a loopback IP. All I can say is that it is very strange. Good luck finding the cause, but I don't think A4Proxy is behind it... I think that their Fake IP address is acturally just selecting a random proxy for each connection, but I've never used it so I don't know 100% for sure...

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Its supposed to modify the Http request to make it look like you are coming from another IP address... but anyway, I tryed a couple of tools that claim to hide the IP address or spoof it and none of them tricked my BB. This is a weird situation. I dont know what they could of done.

correct me if i'm wrong but isn't 127.0.0.1 the IP of your router?