[AfrICANN-discuss] Incorrect IPv6 address displayed when visiting Afrinic website

[Adiel Akplogan]

Dear colleagues,

Sorry for the inconvenience, but this issue is being looked 
at by our dev team. The script in use seems to be behaving 
inconsistently. We will update you on progress.

Thanks.

- a.


On 2012-08-03, at 13:14 PM, Mark Elkins wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 18:23 -0700, SM wrote:
>> Hi Robert,
>> At 05:54 PM 8/2/2012, Robert Guerra wrote:
>>> Still doesn't work.
>>> 
>>> The IP address displayed on the AfriNIC page still is different then 
>>> the one I get when I visit the ARIN site. Here's the details:
>>> 
>>> AFRINIC -  Your IP Address is 2001:13c7:7001:4000::10
>>> ARIN -  Your IPv6 address is 2601:a:3b80:3:c806:28a6:d1b4:3a44
>> 
>> The script used to generate the IP address of the client is 
>> broken.  As you may have gathered ARIN is displaying the correct IP address.
> 
> Keeps giving different results - two machines on the same network, at
> one point - I had the same IPv6 address on both! (No caching).
> Dunno where "2607:f740:90::ea32607:f740:90::ea3" comes from, refresh
> gave "2607:f2f8:a7d0::22607:f2f8:a7d0::2" - then it switched to IPv4 "
> 200.7.84.10200.7.84.10" (doubling the address length..).
> Coolest was getting my Laptops address on my servers browser - just
> displayed twice.
> 
> Wondering what the following would show...
> <?php print $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; ?>
> 
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