The IP Addresses section of the admin control panel allows administrators to search for all users that have visited/posted to the bulletin board using a certain IP address (or vice versa). Click on the
IP Addresses link (under the
Users section), and you'll be presented with the following form:
This form accepts the following parameters:
- IP Address - Type in the IP address (or partial IP address) here... the script will then return all users that have posted/visited the bulletin board with this IP address. An IP address consists of four sets of three numbers, each set seperated with a full stop. (eg. "123.456.789.876"). You can either search for users that exactly match a full IP address, of you can type in a partial IP address (e.g. "123.456") to find all users that access your forum from the same IP address range.
- User Name - If you would prefer to return all IP addresses assigned to a certain user, type in the username that you wish to search for in this field.
- Depth To Search
After pressing the
[Find] button, you'll be taken to the search results page. From here, you'll be able to view which users have accessed the forum with the same IP address, and you'll even be click on the
Find more IP's by this user link if you wish to narrow down the search to a particular username.