Bluehost : Are your “last 300″ logs screwed up? (re: rotating IP’s)

By bluehost on Apr 24, 2006 in Bluehost Blog

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This is a bluehost question posted by tgilson on 22 April 2006

I am having the same problem specified by the user in the “rotating IP’s” thread.

As visitors visit my website, their IP addresses are changing on the fly! I have been monitoring my “last 300 visitors” logs very closely for 2 weeks now and in the last day or so I am getting this phenomena which I have not seen before. I emailed bluehost tech support and was told by a “benjamin” that it is normal for dynamic IP addresses to change, “on the fly” while people are online (!). This goes against all I know about networking and everything I have researched. As I understand it, an IP address, dynamic or other, will remain constant for the duration of the internet connection. Unless I am being really stupid, I would have to say that bluehost tech support is wrong and there is something wrong with the logfiles. IP addresses cannot change “on the fly” as there would be no way for streaming media to work properly. Besides, if it’s “normal” for this to happen, why am I only seeing it in the last day (for almost all visitors)?

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