The reason for me not posting the link to my new Forum(Experiment #1) yet is because I’m having some difficulty with phpBB.

Okay, I have two forums running that I installed, IntoShape Forum and the new Forum also running on phpBB.

These forums are one two different machines but with exactly the same configuration(I hope).

The IntoShape Forum is running very well at the moment with no problems BUT this other one is giving me endless problems.

What happens is when I start browsing the forum(new forum) - for every odd page I visit the visitor count goes one up. So I’ve checked the phpbb_sessions table and I saw different IP addresses logged(encrypted), but then found this cool tool that encrypts and resolves the IP addresses.

I then found that these IP addresses point to saix.net(through which my internet connection goes) is cache1,cache2,cache3 and cache4 . So I know it is going through the cache servers in Sotuh Africa. So could it be the IP address resolution methodology of phpBB that is shunting me around… and WHY is IntoShape Forum functioning correctly(checked it’s IP - just going through cache1).

phpBB kicks me out when logged in as admin and going to the administration panel and then sometimes it goes through.

I think the problem lies where the caching servers have set routed the addresses correctly or IP tables are abit screwed, OR maybe it is because the domain name is nearly a day old that some routers are not updated yet ….

Anyways, will keep figuring this one out…

written by Arné

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