Help please

[goshalim]

Hi

There is something which i cant understand and its very strange

When i am in then admincp and i want to check an IP address iam using

Search IP Addresses then

Find Users by IP Address ( then i put the Ip i want to check and then

Depth to Search 2

Then the system is showing me may be 2 or more users with the same IP.

And i know for sure that this is impossible.

Even me as an admin its shows that i have also 3-4 other account !!

If i used Depth search 1 then its only me.

CAn someone please expain what is goging on.1

BEacuse fro this reason I banned people beacuse iam thinking that they have multiplie accounts.

[bozonessinc]

Maybe your searching deep, which is showing you IP Ranges.

People who are near you.

[goshalim]

Thanks anybody else please ......its very serius

[Lynne]

Lots of users have dynamic IPs. You ought to see how many IPs come up when I do a search on myself. And, occasionally I get a hit on another user who got that IP some other time. You will especially see this if you search on a user that uses AOL!

[goshalim]

Hi Lynne

Then how can we prevent double registrations

Then users that they were ban maybe they are real users !!

What is a dynamic IP ?

[Lynne]

I've never tried to prevent double registrations, so I can't help you there.

A dynamic IP just means it changes often. For AOL users, every time they connect to the internet, they have a different IP. Mine just changes every few days. Some ISPs don't like you to have a static IP since that means you could conceivably host a website.

[goshalim]

Another funny or strange thing was 3 users with the some Ip were connected at the same time on the forum

How is that possible !!!!!

[Lynne]

If they are all from the same house, that will happen. If you are logged into your site all from the same computer, but different browsers, it will happen.

[goshalim]

Thanks