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A IP-related question

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Is it possible to view a IP of a member that hasn't posted, but has logged in and voted in a few topics?
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Re: A IP-related question

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Well,

No, not without a MOD, to be more correct. :P
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Re: A IP-related question

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So can you point me to a mod that does so, please?
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Log IP Address on Registration gives you the possibility to view the IP a user registered with and you can also make it so that every time a user logs in the IP he logged from gets registered. Thus you will always have the last IP from which a user connected to your board.

Read the MOD's release topic, there's many suggestions and ideas in it. I know it's a long thread, 71 pages, but it's worth reading.

But one question, how do you know exactly who voted in a topic?
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Re: A IP-related question

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In the table prefix_vote_voters you can see who voted for what from which IP. So there you can find a connection between user ID and the IP address the vote came from.
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Re: A IP-related question

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Well, we are running the year awards in my forum, so everyone is preety enthusiastic about it. I noticed a new member registering, setting a hidden status, and going to the awards subforum. Quite suspicious behaviour in my opinion.

Thanks for the mod, but still we couldn't trace the IP, as far as I understand the MOD doesn't work retrospectively :|

@Robbie - how I can see that? With a SQL editor I suppose?
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Re: A IP-related question

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tozequio wrote:Thanks for the mod, but still we couldn't trace the IP, as far as I understand the MOD doesn't work retrospectively :|
No it doesn't.
Plain phpBB doesn't record the IP, so it is impossible to access information that was never recorded in the first place.
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Hi,

You can look in the database using phpmyadmin or similar. Most of the times the hoster provides you with a tool like that, or you can install it yourself.
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RobbieRoad wrote:Hi,

You can look in the database using phpmyadmin or similar. Most of the times the hoster provides you with a tool like that, or you can install it yourself.
So?
That isn't going to help you find something that was not recorded in the database in the first place!
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Re: A IP-related question

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If it is not recorded, why do I see it?

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Table phpbb_vote_voters

  vote_id  vote_user_id  vote_user_ip  
      1           7            43ac712c 
      1          11            c34b19e7 
      1           6            d99bcd8a 
      1           5            c159bee8 
      1          12            18a5988b 
In another table you can look up what was actually voted. Here, you can see the IP addresses of users 5, 6, 7, 11 and 12. In the user table, you can look up what their nick names are.
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Oops, please accept my apologies, I never noticed that there before. :oops:
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Re: A IP-related question

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Of course I do. I was wondering if there was something I didn't understand correctly so I'm glad you respond.
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