I think, this one is since the 1.1.2 here on ElkArte.net
The own IP is displayed like this:
It is shown to a moderator may be but not a member, right?
Looks good here at elkarte.net, Ruth. Everything okay, the IP is shown correctly. Mine and other's IPs.
It is just my own IP, which is looking like this.
I can't see another IP here as a member. Other poster profiles are looking proper to me.
Jorin, are you using IE?
It is the same in Opera and Firefox for me.
Right, your IP looks like the image you posted. Uh, strange! :o
hmm... that is an IP address. An IPv6 to be picky.
What is exactly the problem?
The unusual look, Emanuele. ;)
It was not like this a few days ago here on ElkArte.net. This IP has not enough space in the poster info and a break. My IP is not displayed like this in other ElkArte-Forums. I don't have an "IPv6" as far as I know, I have a "normal" IP.
I thought, every IP would be displayed like this now with 1.1.2 - and would not be possible to track for me.
This is my IP from a post right now in my testforum:
(Link-5629) And:
Is the hostname gone in the profiles? Or should admins see them?
There is no entry for them in the profiles in my testforum:
(Link-5631) The same reason maybe?
Well, probably your provider is upgrading his infrastructure and is moving to IPv6:
https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/#/query?searchtext=2003:71:8e08:9690:613f:b72b:3ea4:835d#resultsSection
this is the IP you currently have and is assigned to Deutsche Telekom AG, so... it seems from your area, I don't know if this is actually your provider, of course.
Nope, it's the internet that is changing... and the IP is going to be pretty much useless for tracking.
Also, I'm not that keen in widening the profile area just to accommodate the IP, at best I would truncate it.
Do you have "Disable hostname lookups" disabled?
Yes, but I don't understand, why my IP can be different
at the same time here on ElkArte.net and in my testforum?
It is just another kind of display but the same IP?
I don't know... O:-) Where can I do this?
I'm not that expert, but I guess if the server doesn't support IPv6, then maybe the network falls back to an IIPv4 one.
Somewhere in the admin panel. xD
I guess server settings?
That one? Something like "Disable Hostname-search"? It is looking like this:
The host is a bug. :P
I have the fix locally.
Thank you, Emanuele.
I am trying to figure out since days what could be wrong about the poster info and the profiles in my testforum, that the E-Mail and the website is not displayed in the poster info - and this issue about my "strange" IP here on ElkArte.net and the missing hostname entry in the profiles was puzzling me very much.
So such long IPs like mine here can be displayed "shorter" in future? Would be nice. This break is looking ugly. ;)
I think, it is not really my IP. It is the IP or the location of my provider (Deutsche Telekom AG) in Darmstadt, a town in the middle of Germany (Prussia), :P which is far away from my town. My "normal" IP shows always very close (not more than about 25 km distance) the place, where I live: Deep in the south-east of Germany (Bavaria) ;)
A lot of people in Germany have the same provider as I have. So maybe they all will have the same IPv6 in future? If so, it would no longer be possible for me to look, if members do things, which they are not allowed to do, for example, to give their password to people we had excluded from our community.
And what is about bans by IP? It would not work with such an IP, which would belong to almost every german user in our forum.
Welcome to the internet of the 2016. :)
IP banning will be mostly useless.
The IP can very well be yours, the link I posted is the RIPE, in the organism that assigns the IP ranges to company, is not about geolocation. ;)
The reason why on your website you still see the IPv4 is likely because your sever doesn't support IPv6 and so the network shows the server the v4 instead of the v6.
Just to restate: in my opinion, the solution is to
truncate the IP and show only what can stay in the space, anything else becomes hidden.
If that is fine, I guess it can be worked on.
Yes, I think, I have understood this now, Emanuele. Thank you for the explaination.
Thank you. :P I feel a little too old for this. ;) ( it is already 2018 by the way)
Yes, I understood. This would be fine. :)
Don't worry, I guess we are not that far away and anyway IPv6 is out since... quite a bit of time and has been on a rampage since before 2016 (in 2016 it reached about 10%). :)
https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=ipv6-adoption&tab=ipv6-adoption
Also, Germany seems to be the 2nd country in EU for IPv6 adoption after Belgium:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=ipv6-adoption&tab=ipv6-adoption
Actually, according to these data is the 2nd world-wide. O_O
This change of the IPs must have some advantages, even if I can't quite understand it.
Since a few months I have a new contract with my provider and a new router. Something had been changed completly on the conection to the internet (They were digging holes in front of my house and along the street for this.)
Everything should be even better and faster now.
But it was good enough for me before.
The only difference I notice, is that it is now even more expensive. ;)
lol
Well, the general reason for IPv6 is that there are no more IPv4 addresses...
Agreed. I think IPv6 should be catering the need for fixed IP in the future. Not sure whether it will be more expensive though...