I luckily came across this thread that discusses an IP address detection issue on mosso hosts (and this one over here too) today after panicking when I saw that a LOT of new members were all on IP address 172.16.10.1.

Essentially we just need a setting to switch between using $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’] and $_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP’].

Simple and it makes upgrade paths much simpler. Thanks!

Please add my vote for this.

I haven’t seen anybody but Mosso do this, is that a standard variable? Either way, all that should be required for EE is something like

 
... so that might be an easy FR

Leevi just suggested I add this to index.php in the site root:

Worked a treat

Does that constitute a hack? Or is editing index.php kosher?

Occasionally index.php may need to be updated during the course of a version update - so it would still be a hack that you need to manually re-instate with each update.