192.168.* all internet? Script error? Brain dead.

kevin9 · 10-21-2005, 04:31 AM

I was under the impression 192.168.* are all internal IP addresses?

I run an optin script and some of the confirmation IP addresses from people signup up are coming up like:

192.168.1.22

Is this possible? Any ideas? I am either really confused or been up way to long. No way someone on the network is signing up either.

Thanks for any help

nx5000 · 10-21-2005, 05:13 AM

You can have a look at :

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1918.html

You mean you are receiving packets from the internet which seem to come from Internet?

Which traffic? HTTP?

Are you behind a router , a NAT (Network Address Translation) router for example?

kevin9 · 10-21-2005, 05:36 PM

The IP addresses are coming from an optin script.

We rent a dedicated server, run the script on that. When a person confirms their email address it posts the date, some other info and their IP address.. But I just noticed some of them coming up as 192.168 and have no idea what could be causing that...

jschiwal · 10-21-2005, 05:49 PM

Is your own address similar. I've noticed that some people with dial-up and dsl have the 192.168.x.x numbers, so I think that in those cases, that the ISP is using masquerading to assign the real IP numbers to ISP local 192.168 numbers. This may mean that these users are using the same Internet Service provider as your server does. However the 192.168.x.x address is not normally routed outside of a local network. My point is that the local network in this case includes the ISP's network.