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Site on IPv4 only logs IPv6 visitors #10104

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mbroek opened this issue Apr 28, 2016 · 2 comments
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Site on IPv4 only logs IPv6 visitors #10104

mbroek opened this issue Apr 28, 2016 · 2 comments
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@mbroek
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mbroek commented Apr 28, 2016

I'm running a Piwik server version 2.16.1 This server is accessible via IPv4 and IPv6.
One of the servers that I monitor runs with an ISP that only has IPv4. That server logs IPv6 visitors which is impossible.
When I inspect the logs I see entries coming from a dual stack client connect via IPv4 to the IPv4 only website and connects at the same time to the piwik server using IPv6. Here are parts of the logfiles:

195.241.xx.xx - - [18/Apr/2016:13:10:21 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 8325 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0"

2001:xxxx:xxxx:7e97::5 - - [18/Apr/2016:13:10:21 +0200] "GET /piwik/piwik.php?action_name=Voices&idsite=14&rec=1&r=576524&h=13&m=10&s=21&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zanggroepvoices.nl%2F&id=1045303909a7763c&idts=1438343396&idvc=44&idn=0&refts=0&viewts=1460977822&cs=windows-1252&send_image=0&pdf=0&qt=0&realp=0&wma=0&dir=0&fla=1&java=1&gears=0&ag=0&cookie=1&res=1920x1080&gt_ms=37 HTTP/1.1" 204 0 "http://www.zanggroepvoices.nl/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0" "-" "-" "0.119"

I think that in the message to the piwik server a parameters should be sent that tells the real origin of the site visit. Now it uses the origin address used on the piwik server.
@tsteur
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tsteur commented May 1, 2016

It may help to configure some headers in config/config.ini.php see http://piwik.org/faq/how-to-install/faq_98/ . Does this help?

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halfdan commented May 9, 2016

Hi @mbroek,
I think this is perfectly normal. Dual-stack clients will fetch your IPv4-only website over IPv4, then load the Piwik tracking script from your dual-stack Piwik server via IPv6 (because with dual-stack clients IPv6 is usually preferred) and then track the visit with IPv6 accordingly. Piwik has no way of knowing which protocol was used to fetch the original website.

Feel free to reopen if you have any other questions.

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