IP Address ?

**EyeOfTheTiger** · 10-01-05

HI,

I need some help please.

I use hitslink.com to track my siote stats and it asks for an I.P. address to ignore. I presume this is so that every time I access my site from my computer either via the web or as web preview it won't count these hits in my statistics and hence I won't be billed for these hits (I get charged on page impressions). My question is how do I find out my IP address. I'm on wanadoo dial-up. Am I right in saying that every time I connect I am allocated a different IP address and that "static" ip address numbers are only given to broadband connections ?

Many thanks for any advice

Tiger

**MikkyX** · 10-01-05

To find out your IP address visit http://www.whatismyip.com - your IP is displayed at the top.

And yes, 99.9% of dial-up providers will assign you a dynamic IP when you connect - meaning your IP will be different every time.

**EyeOfTheTiger** · 10-01-05

Thanks Mike,

Your link is very useful.

And your confirmation of the dynamic IP is as I thought.

Rgds

Tiger

**fishboy** · 10-01-05

Not sure if this will help but if you're worried about your ip changing you could always route your connection through a proxy with static ip. This should solve your probelm but i'm not sure if this is a recommended practice, perhaps there's an alternative?

I don't understand why you're paying for an external service though. Does you own host not provide stats/log access?

**EyeOfTheTiger** · 12-01-05

I pay for an external service as it is far more superior than that offered by my host. For the information it provided me the $20 p/, is well worth it. I shouldn't really spend so much time looking at stats though.

Cheers

Tiger

**wowsers** · 12-01-05

Also, if it's any help to anyone you can determine your IP by bringing up the dos command prompt and typing:
ipconfig

I think this works with most windows versions

**dmorison** · 13-01-05

Hello Tiger,

As you have a dynamic IP, there is another way that you can prevent your own page views being logged.

I notice that hitslink.com tracks impressions using some code that refers to the following host name:

counter.hitslink.com

(check the instructions you have been given by hitslink.com as it might be slightly different)

You can stop your computer from being able to access that host (and therefore prevent your own page views from being logged) by editing your hosts file. Under Windows, I think it is:

c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

You need to edit that file, and add the line:

Code:

counter.hitslink.com 127.0.0.1

Windows always looks in the hosts file before doing a DNS lookup, so it would then get 127.0.0.1 for counter.hitslink.com which is a standard IP address that means "the local computer", so the request will just silently fail.

Hope this helps!

**EyeOfTheTiger** · 15-01-05

Hi Dmorison,

Thats an excellent bit og help. I've done as you said and it works a treat

Hopefully now that my hits to my site aren't logged i'll get much lower tracking bills. Shame it looks as though I've lost half of my traffic ( I was wondering why I wasn't earning much money for all those visits!!!

Thanks again for your assistance, much appreciated.

Tiger