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Scrutinize users IP - what exactly does this do? I've wondered this for ages had a search about but can't find a suitable answer.

(2013-03-10, 11:03 PM)effone Wrote: [ -> ]http://community.mybb.com/post-827449.html

I still don't understand what it does.

Sometimes the website hosts use custom scripts or sort of proxies which prevents MyBB to fetch the users IPs in a correct manner which can cause IP details messup. Like Random IP logs for a single user or no IP displayed in the who's online list etc.

Setting that to "Yes" may help you solve these issues.

Yes, some webservers have a proxy for faster transfers, CloudFlare as an example (not sure if it still does that though). It uses a different and more accurate method to get the IP. If you're having no proxy issues, don't need it.