Re: Need suggestion about what's going on
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:04 PM, lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use Ghostery with firefox. So when I visited my own testing homepage,
> the google analytic won't have a record. But I also keep a short script
> to record who visited my homepage at the serve side.
the httpd logs, correct?
> This morning, I opened my browser, just to read couple of news. And from
> google analytic I noticed someone who visited my page around 10am.
Google Analytics doesn't show IP addresses, correct?
> After
> further check, it showed me it's exactly from my own laptop.
> As indicated at 10:48:28
>
> 2014-03-06 10:48:28 172.21.100.159
> 2014-03-06 11:04:12 172.21.100.159
> 2014-03-06 11:08:51 172.21.100.159
172.16.0.0/12, so private area network address.
> I was surprise, certainly I didn't browse my homepage at that time,
> neither I had some TAB opened in firefox, so I checked the history of
> today from firefox, except couple of news-site I visited, I am sure that
> I didn't visit my own page at that time.
As Scott suggested, did you check the time settings on your server and
your laptop? And did you check whether the logs are recording in your
timezone, or perhaps in UTC?
> At 11:04:12 I visited my homepage, and I checked google analytics, it
> didn't have my record, so the Ghostery still works very well. But later
> surprisingly, at 11:08:51 there is another visit without my
> real-involvement, and it is from my own laptop, but not from my opening
> firefox.
What else runs on your laptop? Test scripts?
And another option, are your sure no one in your private network might
have been assigned (or arbitrarily grabbed) the address you are using?
But if your server is not in your private network, 172.21.100.159
would be on it's private network, not yours. I think.
> I am confused. Any suggestion about what's going on.
Well, there is also the possibility that you are reading the referrer field.
Or maybe someone is spoofing your, or maybe you have something
untoward that has gotten itself loaded and running on your laptop.
--
Joel Rees
Be careful where you see conspiracy.
Look first in your own heart.
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