Question User IP address

[IBMJunkman]

My website (on GoDaddy) has a comment page where the user enters info and clicks on send. I am capturing what I thought is the users IP by using Request.UserHostAddress in the form's VB code. I have had a friend in CA try the form. I have tried the form from my iPad (both on wifi and cell) and from my Android. I always get 192.88.134.12. That resolves to cloudproxy11012.sucuri.net. Until recently I was getting a lot of BOT traffic using the comments page. Those also had the same IP address.

Apparently GoDaddy and Sucuri are one or close.

How or why are they changing my data being sent to the email server?

 

[Sgraffite]

It sounds like the request is going through a proxy and you are just always getting the proxy's IP address back. There are some headers you can check such as HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR and REMOTE_ADDR. Various examples here in various languages:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/735350/how-to-get-a-users-client-ip-address-in-asp-net

 

[IBMJunkman]

It sounds like the request is going through a proxy and you are just always getting the proxy's IP address back. There are some headers you can check such as HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR and REMOTE_ADDR. Various examples here in various languages:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/735350/how-to-get-a-users-client-ip-address-in-asp-net

I need to understand the flow. I doubt everyone that tried it is using the same proxy. Including my BOT friends.

 

[Sgraffite]

I need to understand the flow. I doubt everyone that tried it is using the same proxy. Including my BOT friends.

I was under the impression that it was GoDaddy's proxy to your site, however they have that set up. So every user interacting with your site goes through the same proxy.

 

[Ken g6]

It's a reverse proxy. Your host placed it in front of your server. It may have other roles, such as caching, blocking some of your "BOT friends", and load balancing requests among several actual servers hosting your site.