Re: RE: [IE] GeoIP Module for Blocking IP in http_x_forwarded_for

2018-01-17 Thread anish10dec
Thanks ... We need the Client IP on Server B as well for analytics . Tried by enabling the Geo IP module on Server A which looks after remote address field and successfully blocks the request. But the problem here is that it is even blocking the requests coming from our Internal Private IP Segme

RE: [IE] GeoIP Module for Blocking IP in http_x_forwarded_for

2018-01-11 Thread Jason Whittington
If you control Frontend Server A I would suggest not using X-Forwarded-For for this purpose. Can you have the front end server send a distinct header to server B? X-Real-IP would be a good choice of header. Then Server B could key off that header instead of XFF. You might find this page inte