Strange IPs

[hamann]

Hi!

I've just updated to tw0.31 and everything works fine, BUT in the latest visitors view I got some strange IPs. Usually I would expect them to be in a form like this: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. Actually I see a lot of them appearing this style: "NS (!NS 7-3716542179)". Browsing through the latest visitors I can see a few hundred normal IPs followed by a few hundred of these strange IPs. Also the page report is filled with "!NS"-numbers instead of expected html-files.

Attached you can find a little screen shot of this issue.

As I do not know how to interpret these "!NS"-numbers, may be someone here can give me a little hint?!

Many thanks in advance!

[arash]

"!NS"-numbers means an "entity value" that is referenced but doesn't exist. In simpler terms it means something went wrong.
Did you set $settings[ 'down' ] to true before updating? If not then these errors might be caused by a partially updated TraceWatch. If that is not the case then obviously something went wrong during the update process because those !NS-number values mean TraceWatch is not working right. Try updating to 0.321 (follow the update instructions carefully) see if that solves the problem.

[hamann]

Thank you, Arash, for disclosing the secret of those "!NS"-entries ;-)

Actually my "update" to 0.31 was a parallel installation in a different folder with a different database. So everything should have been fresh and new?!

I have just updated the soft to 0.321. By now everything seems to work perfectly. I'll give another feedback in the next 48h.

Thank you!

[hamann]

Hi Arash,

the problem unfortunately still occurs after updating. Playing with the configuration I think the problem is based somewhere in reading from the database: Setting the number of sessions per page in the latest visitors view to different values generates different "!NS"-results. Also the latest visitors view usually starts with "normal" entries.

Setting down the the number of displayed users to 30 reduces the "!NS"-entries to a acceptable limit, but adjusting the number of visitors in the latest visitors view is a feature I really like, as I have to browse through about 1000 entries a week.

Maybe someone else experiences this kind of problem and can give some additional information?

But it's still great soft :-)

[arash]

Thanks for the info hamann, After a lot of thinking I suppose finally I figured out where the problem is. I will try to fix this in next release :)