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Re: Dynamic DNS - IP detection

From: David Zanetti <dave2_at_earthling.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 09:44:25 +1300 (NZDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10011260942540.20578-100000@wakko.wetstring.net>

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On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Darryl Warren wrote:

> Until last night around 11pm the following site was correctly returning the
> external address of my m11 (has been fine for months)
>
> http://www.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/check_ip.cgi
>
> Now it seems to be returning an address (maybe a caching server) within the
> xtra network.

Probably Xtra have added transparent proxying. Becoming quite common, and
does have a tendency to mess with various things if not set up correctly.
However, in this case, the connection to that CGI will appear to come from
Xtra's proxy no matter how they've set it up..

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