This is very confusing, hope someone can tell me what's going on.
I've been trying to work on a client store that is protected by an IP-address whitelist. Only the shopping pages are protected; I can get to the admin. I checked my IP address on the Store Settings admin page, and sent it to the client; and the next day he mailed me saying that I was added to the whitelist. But I still couldn't get to the shopping pages; it turned out that my IP address had changed.
I'm working from home, and I know that consumer-oriented ISPs do change customers' addresses from time to time. So I sent the new address to the client, and by the next day, he had added it to the whitelist. But I still couldn't get in; my address had changed again.
That was yesterday; today it's changed again. Even a consumer ISP (in my case, it's AT&T) shouldn't change my IP address every day. I suppose I need to contact them about this; but first I wanted to ask this community. Has this happened to you? Do you know what's going on, and how to fix it?
I've also been checking my address at a public site, whatismyipaddress.com. That one tells me that I have two addresses; one in the long IPv6 format, and another in the older, shorter, IPv4 format. According to that site, only the v6 address is changing every day; the v4 address seems to be holding steady.
When I log into various clients' admin pages, some of them show the v6 address, and some show the v4. Why is that? Is there some way to configure the server to use one or the other?
If anyone can clarify what;s going on with these addresses, I'd appreciate some help, just to understand it better.
Thanks --
I've been trying to work on a client store that is protected by an IP-address whitelist. Only the shopping pages are protected; I can get to the admin. I checked my IP address on the Store Settings admin page, and sent it to the client; and the next day he mailed me saying that I was added to the whitelist. But I still couldn't get to the shopping pages; it turned out that my IP address had changed.
I'm working from home, and I know that consumer-oriented ISPs do change customers' addresses from time to time. So I sent the new address to the client, and by the next day, he had added it to the whitelist. But I still couldn't get in; my address had changed again.
That was yesterday; today it's changed again. Even a consumer ISP (in my case, it's AT&T) shouldn't change my IP address every day. I suppose I need to contact them about this; but first I wanted to ask this community. Has this happened to you? Do you know what's going on, and how to fix it?
I've also been checking my address at a public site, whatismyipaddress.com. That one tells me that I have two addresses; one in the long IPv6 format, and another in the older, shorter, IPv4 format. According to that site, only the v6 address is changing every day; the v4 address seems to be holding steady.
When I log into various clients' admin pages, some of them show the v6 address, and some show the v4. Why is that? Is there some way to configure the server to use one or the other?
If anyone can clarify what;s going on with these addresses, I'd appreciate some help, just to understand it better.
Thanks --
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