Guestbook IP Address Strangeness

[Lewis Kirk-2]

I have been using the Guestbook with the admin and delete the spam. I sometimes block the IP addresses if they are from known spam spewers and become annoying; however, lately the IP addresses being displayed in the log look like:

216-31-225-6.static-ip.telepacific.net
198.235.14.30
ip-72-55-188-250.static.privatedns.com
82.173.92.64.static.reverse.ltdomains.com
198.65.122.125
ns.km10329.keymachine.de
41.220.227.2
mailer2.mtvi.com
cpe-024-168-247-224.sc.res.rr.com
ns.km10329.keymachine.de
72.52.96.51
mailer2.mtvi.com
151.11.232.92
74.223.57.126.nw.nuvox.net
89-149-241-118.internetserviceteam.com
www.macs.net
host99.190-139-105.telecom.net.ar
89-149-227-238.internetserviceteam.com

(I modified the script so that it will list only IP addresses to make it easier to copy them to the banned list.)

Is there some reason that $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} picks up this syntax? Or is it a spam technique?

Thanks!

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[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Lewis" == Lewis Kirk <nms1@...> writes:

Lewis> Is there some reason that $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} picks up this syntax? Or is
Lewis> it a spam technique?

If you're sure you're looking at REMOTE_ADDR, and it's not simply an IP
address, this would be a question for your hosting operator, not for us.

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[Lewis Kirk-2]

At 12:20 PM -0800 1/29/09, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>> "Lewis" == Lewis Kirk <nms1@...> writes:
>
>Lewis> Is there some reason that $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} picks up this syntax? Or is
>Lewis> it a spam technique?
>
Randal> If you're sure you're looking at REMOTE_ADDR, and it's not simply an IP
Randal> address, this would be a question for your hosting operator, not for us.
>

OK. I found it. I am using Guestbook.pl,v 1.52 and it uses POSIX. There are two places where I replaced "my $remote = remote_host();"  with "my $remote = $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR};". Now I get a normal IP address which I can use in the banned list.

Then I tried using my $remote = remote_addr(); and that seems to work also with POSIX.

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[Randal L. Schwartz]

glad to hear you solved your problem.
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