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Private IP Addresses appearing in logs


 
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JLA
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 7:49 pm 
Post subject: Private IP Addresses appearing in logs

Curious - what scenarios would cause Private IP addresses

10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255

to appear in the Sessions table? Of course the obvious of browsing PHPBB from the same LAN as the servers would account for this - what about other possibilities?

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 8:50 am 
Post subject: Re: Private IP Addresses appearing in logs

These IP ranges cannot be routed on the external networks like the internet. Maybe someone uses an obfuscation service and this service shows up as if it were in the private ranges. Never trust IP adresses and their connected DNS entries.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 12:22 pm 
Post subject: Re: Private IP Addresses appearing in logs

StarWolf3000 wrote:
These IP ranges cannot be routed on the external networks like the internet. Maybe someone uses an obfuscation service and this service shows up as if it were in the private ranges. Never trust IP adresses and their connected DNS entries.


Yes, that was our thinking as well. One of the particular users that we noticed were appearing this way were showing a private lan block IP inside PHPBB but the firewall and server logs were showing their true internet IP. Do you think this was intentional behavior on the part of the user?

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 6:24 pm 
Post subject: Re: Private IP Addresses appearing in logs

JLA wrote:
Do you think this was intentional behavior on the part of the user?
Could be.

They'll never get a response from your server, but it is possible to forge the origin address.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 10:21 am 
Post subject: Re: Private IP Addresses appearing in logs

Dog Cow wrote:
JLA wrote:
Do you think this was intentional behavior on the part of the user?
Could be.

They'll never get a response from your server, but it is possible to forge the origin address.


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