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by rcolond

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I was on an Australian discussion Board going back and forth discussing issues. However several times my IP address on top changed ending in the Board accusing me of posting under differtent aliases using the IP address as the reason. Also a couple of others posting also had my IP address at times. Could you explain the anomaly if there is one and how come it shows up on someone else's posting.

Thanks.

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by dont-bother

It would HAVE to be in the Discussion Board software.

Real discussion board software is not cheap (at least not for many users). Right now there are many 'open source' boards in development being used. It was probably one of these open source boards, PHP, ASP, Perl, etc. that you can get from sourceforge.com

Your IP isn't actually changing, but the programming controlling the board actions 'thinks so'.

There wouldn't be any other explanation I know of.
IF your IP was actually changing, your net connection would HAVE to go down at least temporarily.

by rcolond

Thanks. I called AOL and they said that they change it regularly for the security of their members. Thanks for trying anyway.

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