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Points: 7 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote pete31 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 March 2016 at 2:37pm
Just found something which looks a bit strange in the database table "sessions"

The IP address column seems to be truncated after the second octet

All the sessions have IP addresses like '10.105.' or '10.100.'

There are multiples of these, e.g. two rows that share the IP '10.100.' although they have different session IDs and session data.

Should the session table contain the complete IP address?
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Points: 9844 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote WebWiz-Bruce Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16 March 2016 at 8:45am
No, only the /16 network address is used and not the whole IP.

If the IP does not match a new session would be created and the user would need to login again.

The reason why only the first part of the IP is used for this additional security check is that some ISP's such as AOL use NAT's that change the IP as the user browses the web but stays within the same /16 network address range.

The IP Session Checking can be turned of from the admin area if you did not want to use this or it causes problems, but this would not have any affect on your issue.

I still suspect the issue is the wrong username is being read in from AD, but without doing the debugging that I asked you to do before there is no way to know if the issue is a server setup issue of an issue with the web wiz forums code.

I suspect more on the side of the server setting issue causing the wrong username to be read in from AD.


Edited by WebWiz-Bruce - 16 March 2016 at 9:16am
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We've made a change to the cache settings, so far so good. Hopefully the issue doesn't repeat.  Thanks for the info.
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Good to hear that you track down the issue and have found a solution.
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