inactives

[boionfire81]

inactives are giving a gethostbyaddr(): Address is not a valid IPv4 or IPv6 address (2) on viewing profile

[TheMasterGeneral]

MCCv2, correct? I believe if you add users by the staff panel, it doesn't give an default IP to one of the fields. Check the panel, and your database and input a default IP (127.0.0.1 or whatever)

[boionfire81]

yeah I saw that with the NPC, but the inactive also has the same issue. He signed up and only came online once or twice. I'm having him login now to see if the error goes away

[KyleMassacre]

The IP should not have anything to do with when the last time he logged in was. Something must have happened and his IP got messed up in the database

[boionfire81]

Well......

I literally just now got this error on my profile...I tried logging out and back in, but yeah same error. AND it's me >.<

[KyleMassacre]

Look at your IP in the DB and make sure it's a valid address

[boionfire81]

IPv4 is good. Not sure how to read IPv6

[sniko]

gethostbyaddr doesn't support IPv6 (and anything that isn't IPv4 format). You don't really need to know the host, really. Either remove this lookup, or use a service like https://fraudguard.io/

Example response from FraudGuard - https://api.fraudguard.io/;

 

[color=#505050]{ [/color]
[color=#000000]   "isocode":"US",
  "country":"United States",
  "state":"CO",
  "city":"Loveland",
  "discover_date":"2016-03-18 02:57:40",
  "threat":"open public proxy",
  "risk_level":"3" [/color]
[color=#505050]}[/color]

[boionfire81]

So why was it included in the standard McCodes v2?

[G7470]

So why was it included in the standard McCodes v2?

1. They felt that knowing the host was of some importance to the users of MCC (which it certainly might have been at the time and still might)
   
2. IPv6 was hardly ever used at the time of MCC v2 release
   

 

~G7470

[boionfire81]

hmmm, IPv6 may only be of interest in terms of host, but IPv4 is in the process of being depreciated to IPv6. At least according to some tech news.

[boionfire81]

I made this change

 

//   $r['lastiph'] = @gethostbyaddr($r['lastip']);
       //    $r['lastiph'] = checkblank($r['lastiph']);
        //   $r['lastip_loginh'] = @gethostbyaddr($r['lastip_login']);
        //   $r['lastip_loginh'] = checkblank($r['lastip_loginh']);
        //   $r['lastip_signuph'] = @gethostbyaddr($r['lastip_signup']);
        //   $r['lastip_signuph'] = checkblank($r['lastip_signuph']);

 

and just deleted the td calls code. But now my profile says Sorry, we could not find a user with that ID, check your source.

 

[KyleMassacre]

Returning the host name may show if someone is using a proxy service which may have been a good thing way back in the day when V1/V2 was released. But finding people with proxies may not always be a good thing. Some countries that hate your country may ban access to any IPs registered with your country. So this may give them a chance to play your game.

But what sniko suggests is pretty interesting and may be something worth looking into, especially if it's free.

[boionfire81]

ok, but in the meantime, I'm stuck here with 2 choices. Have a gethostaddrs error or remove/comment out that part and have an invalid userid. Invalid userid basically leaves me without being able to use the majority of the site.

[KyleMassacre]

I'm not understanding where the invalid user ID comes in. Because that is taken from the query string.

viewuser.php?id=1

[boionfire81]

yes, but it shows invalid id.

[KyleMassacre]

And if you un-comment that stuff it works fine?

[boionfire81]

no, if uncommented, white page with the gethosterror. commented it says invalid id

[KyleMassacre]

You must have made other changes to the script

[sniko]

no, if uncommented, white page with the gethosterror. commented it says invalid id

Ugh, you really need to learn how to debug.

[boionfire81]

I only installed 1 by [uSER=65371]sniko[/uSER] http://mccodes.com/viewmod.php?id=44