Questions tagged [ip-address]
An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.
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What is the range of IPs that someone with a dynamic IP address can be assigned?
I am working on a security policy and I'm wondering about users who have a dynamic IP address. If their IP address changes frequently, will their ISP reassign them IPs from a limited pool of IPs?
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What is the SEO impact of moving my domain to another IP address and what is the right way of doing this?
I am planning to move several websites to a new hosting provider - keeping the same URL but will resolve to different IP addresses.
For example, some sites are Canadian content-only sites, hosted on ...
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Prevent request via IP address of server
I'm pretty sure there's a way to prevent access to a website through the server IP address and to force the user to enter the domain name instead.
so that http://156.56.75.87 should trigger a 403 and ...
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backlinks: two domains with same IP
I run several different web pages on different servers (with different IP addresses). These pages are linking to each other in order to boost number of backlinks pointing to my pages.
I would like ...
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POST attack on my website
I have a site (humanisms.co.uk) which incorporates a voting system, ie. user clicks "Up" and it sends a parameter to a PHP script via AJAX, the PHP inserts vote into MYSQL db and the new "Up" vote is ...
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Fixing my mail servers outgoing IP being on spam blacklists
According to MXToolBox.com, my GoDaddy's outgoing mail server IP address is on a couple blacklists for spam and I'm not spamming anyone. Since I'm on a shared IP address with other sites, I'm sure one ...
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Setting reverse PTR
I have a cPanel server at Hosting Fever with following IPs:
103.242.119.56 (main server IP) and 103.242.119.71.
I have several sites on main IP while one site on dedicated IP 103.242.119.71. Mails ...
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Why does flush DNS often fail to work?
C:\Windows\system32>ipconfig /flushdns
Windows IP Configuration
Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.
C:\Windows\system32>ping beautyadmired.com
Pinging beautyadmired.com [xxx.45.62.2]...
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Is it unwise to blacklist an IP address?
We have a form on a commercial website which has been abused (but only once or twice) by someone from a particular IP address.
A colleague wants to blacklist that IP address from the website.
Seems ...
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PageSpeed - Minimize DNS lookups: why not use IP address for resources
One of the recommendations from web performance optimization services is to minimize DNS look ups.
I fully understand why they recommend this but why not just point references to external files to ...
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IP - Country based ad delivery
I am looking for an ad manager script/system (open source or paid) which can deliver different ads based on the IP - country of the visitors. Would be nice if you can name one if you know!
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netblock ip - own hosting - home servers
I host 2 websites that generate a pretty substantial traffic (about 6000 unique visitors a day both). I have business Internet at home and I own one static IP from my ISP. I run my own servers. ...
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How to reduce DNS lookups?
It takes about 20-120 milliseconds for DNS (Domain Name System) to resolve IP address for a given hostname or domain name and the browser cannot do anything until the process is properly completed.
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Domain owner uses my IP without permission
as I discovered recently a lot of domains of a certain organisation all have their A-Record set to the IP of a server that I own. The server currently does only host security auditing tools and does ...
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Optimising website IP for location
From my understanding of SEO, websites are optimised for the current location of their IP address.
For example if xxx.xxx.xxx.xx resolves to the UK then you are more likely to get higher rankings in ...
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CPanel Visitors filled with bandwidth thieves
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Strange and seemingly random entries on the CPanel Latest Visitors console, showing IPs accessing image files without any referring URL and not identified as Bots.
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I have never had ...
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Get IP range of "Microsoft Corp" network provider
I'd like to find the IP range of the "Microsoft Corp" network provider.
How can I find this out? So far I've only been able to find this site which has a list of ip addresses, not necessarily an ...
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Can I redirect a subdomain to an IP address with a port? [duplicate]
I've got two addresses: ipaddress and ipaddress:100. The first one uses the default port of 80, but the second server (running GitLab) uses port 100. I have multiple IP addresses, but I am wondering ...
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How can we find real source of suspected user entries?
I have a website where I keep logging the user entries. I found some anonymous entries in my table and I suspect they are using some kind of proxy switchers. How can I find the real source of these ...
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IP canonical URL issue
So I did a search engine optimization test today and one thing it came back with was:
Your site's IP XX.XXX.XXX.XX does not redirect to your site's domain name. This could cause duplicate content ...
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How to Add Two Domains ON 1 IP using webmin
I am a new user of webmin and I have two domains site1.com and site2.net.
I have one dedicated IP for the server and I have set site1.com to use following name servers ns1.site1.com and ns2.site1.com ...
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Error 404 (Not Found)!
My website is www.sbsangpi.com and I checked the IP address of my website is (173.194.72.121).
Whenever I browse 173.194.72.121, I got message "ERROR 404(Not Found)!!!"
I use blogger and redirected ...
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Restrict access to IP address range
I’m trying to restrict access to a web resource to the intranet of a company via .htaccess. Unfortunately, the approach via Allow from … isn’t working for me and and I don’t understand subnets well ...
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Spam prevention through IP tracking
I am building a website with user generated comments. In order to implement user moderation/spam-protection, users have the ability to mark comments as spam. When one comment is marked as spam, I want ...
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Can't reach website from outside of the network
I've created a website on IIS on my server, and can access this through my server to prove that the website is running fine locally.
I have set up these bindings on the site:
I've followed advice ...
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DNS A Record going back and forth, 48 hours after changing
I'm moving a website but keeping the email setting for now, so I changed the A Record on the current ISP to the new IP provided by the new ISP. And it has been more than 48 hours the domain is still ...
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How do I remove old ip address URL from Google search results?
I have a simple blog.
In google search engine page ranking, I notice it ranks the IP address URL of dev server. Whoops. However, the final site was moved to different server and is live there. ...
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How to test my website from my phone on the same local network? 127.0.0.1 doesn't work
I use a text editor to develop a website (Brackets), I can test on Chrome and change screen size on Chrome, but I want to test on my actual iPhone.
If I try to go to the address : http://127.0.0.1:...
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Proof exclusive ownership of IP address
We run VM's in azure behind LB and public dedicated IP address. The customer requires proof of ownership of the dedicated IP address. Or if that's impossible, than he requires to have the ability to ...
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Checking if IP is blacklisted
I have an experimental site I am working on which accesses another website for information and data and calls several times a day for a few seconds. It's been working fine for about 6 months, but the ...
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How do I whitelist a user with a dynamic IP address in GoDaddy Plesk?
I have an ASP.NET site hosted on GoDaddy Plesk. I'm restricting site access using a whitelist of IP addresses to prevent web crawlers from seeing it, but the clients who need to see the site have ...
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On WordPress site, the domain name is changed to the IP address if any link is clicked
I have registered my domain from namecheap.com
There I set up an A record type www pointing to my static IP address.
If I enter my domain name in the browser address bar then the the welcome page is ...
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Index site via domain name, but not via direct IP [duplicate]
For some context, I'm modifying somebody's website. This particular site is not yet published - it is accessible via direct IP.
Problem: Google has crawled the direct IP, and people are reaching the ...
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Is there a way to get a companies name from their office networks ip address
Is there a way to get a companies name from their offices ip address ? (Note this is their office ip address as in the ip address that a employee at their office would connect to the internet with, ...
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Does using the same mail and web server increases risk of DDos due to IP exposure?
I use the same server for sending my emails and web hosting.I send user registration and support forum mails from my server and occasional marketing mails or newsletters.
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Plesk IP Address defaults to new site
I manage a Plesk (12) server with a single dedicated IP address. rDNS is set to a generic hostname as multiple unrelated websites are hosted on the same server.
In Tools & Settings > IP Addresses ...
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Would moving my site to a new domain host fix a spam blacklisting?
I noticed my domain was listed on the blacklist site, Fabelsources. According to the first paragraph of the information I looked up, it said:
Someone or something on your network sent spam to the
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Browser shows IP address instead of my domain name when using Google Cloud
I recently bought a domain name from GoDaddy. I have a web server running in Google Cloud with a static IP. In the DNS configuration in GoDaddy, I added an A record (@ -> To the static IP of the ...
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How can I log a user's actual IP address instead of CloudFlare's?
My raw access log is now filled with CloudFlare IP addresses. Is there any way I can use a .htacess file or configure the server to log the user's actual IP address?
With PHP, CloudFlare creates these ...
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How do I validate IP Address ownership for authentication?
I have a website where digital content is behind a paywall. We verify users have access by IP address. Our customers are all large companies, with static IP addresses. So, if a user is within the ...
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Dozens of private IP addresses in Google Analytics
I was reviewing my Analytics for the past year and noticed a couple dozen different IP addresses showing up as referrals. I tracked a few of them down to be Google (why are Google IP addresses coming ...
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IPv6 traffic peaks every 2 hours at same value
I am building a website and there are no users yet.
Odd thing is, every 2 hours I see a peak in IPv6 traffic:
I am concerned someone is polling my server for nefarious reasons. Am I right to be ...
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Does Google treat AWS IP addresses as related?
We are hosting several websites on one of our servers, and wondering if because they are on the same subnet that they have been somehow penalized.
We are not inter-linking between websites.
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Spam Coming from 127.0.0.1 - Safe to Block This Address?
I see a great deal of spam (comment attempts, forum registration attempts, dictionary attacks, etc.) on my sites coming from the IP 127.0.0.1
I know that this is a local ip, so it doesn't make sense ...
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Prevent account sharing for paid membership online content
What's the best way to catch account sharers?
I thought about:
See how many people are currently logged in with it (cookies)
See how many logins there were in the past 24 hours
See how many ...
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Local IP address preferred after DNS resolution?
I have consul as nameserver that resolves address from two instances of a service. DNS info via dig interface.http.service.consul:
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interface.http.service.consul. 0 IN A 10.0.0.85
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Why does blocking IP addresses from China and Ukraine to fight spam also block some legitimate European visitors?
I'm getting hammered by spam requests. I allow guest comments that require pending and got over 20,000 of them in a very short space of time. 99% are from Ukraine or China. To bypass this I have used ...
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A large percentage of my traffic originates from my own website's IP address [closed]
I've been going through my webalizer stats for the past few months, and on a month to month basis I have noticed this trend.
A very high percentage (usually around 20% of traffic by KBytes) belongs ...
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Identify IP address / hosting of inner pages
Working on a website which an SEO agency had previously done lots of spammy work on and built loads of duplicate home pages in subfolders just with a different locals in the title and URLs.
However ...
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how do I get my friend to see my domain?
How do I allow my friend to see a web site via an unregistered domain name and not via a direct IP address.
I'm using Xampp 1.8.1 and have my ports forwarded.
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