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My internet service is comcast; they’re not my website host. Perhaps it was a coincidental glitch. The universe can throw some odd things around sometimes. If I get brave, I will turn the router firewall on again and see what happens.
I’m not hosting the sites myself, so it’s a mystery! Plus, with my firewall turned on, it makes sense thet my own ip would appear as private, but why would visitor ips show as private? Another mystery, the plain traffic counter I used to use, installed on this site just to check, captured the proper ips.
However, Wordfence ips are now being properly displayed now, my own and visitors’too, so I’m turning my allotted worry-time to another issue for now, LOL
Here’s the weirdest thing – at least it seems so to me … I came awake in the night remembering I’d recently turned on my Apple router’s firewall which I’d never realized was off by default. So I had changed something. This morning first thing I turned it back off and Wordfence was working properly again. Either it was an amazing coincidence or my router firewall was causing a problem.
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. All seems well now.
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Thank you for your help, Tim. I had said I’d made no changes to any setting anywhere, but it came to me in the night that I had enabled the firewall on my Apple router, which I only just now realized was off by default. First thing this morning I switched it back off and then checked Wordfence and it’s capturing IPs without me having to try any of the options.
The site with All In One WP Security installed is working now too.
Yay for being back to normal! It seems odd that my router was the culprit though. Maybe I just don’t understand how things work (an understatement there!)
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Thanks for your response! I had said I’d made no changes to any settings anywhere, but it came to me in the night that I had Turned on the firewall on my Apple router, (which I only now realized was off by default). So first thing this morning I disabled my Time Machine firewall and lo and behold the plugin can detect ips using the default method.
I went to my other site that uses Wordfence, as it was exhibiting the same problem, and everything is back to normal now. It’s detecting IPs left and right.
Does that seem strange to you, that my router firewall caused this issue?
Again, thanks for your help. I’m all set now, I think.
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Today, Live Traffic is still logging every visitor as from “An Unknown Location” and every visitor has the same IP of 192.168.151.0.
I went into options and, following the instructions found in the help section, I turned off the cache plugin, then tried each of the choices for how Wordfence gets IPs (with the exception of the Cloudfare option). As instructed, I visited from another browser. Nothing changed. My IP and the IP of any other visitor is still 192.168.151.0. I rechose the first (recommended) option I had originally checked and worked up until yesterday.
The scan results show no issues; diagnostics says all is okay.
With the IPs all the same generic address, how can Wordfence do its work? This is suddenly happening on both my sites.