I notice a link called “IP: logged” at the end of every post. I tried to click on that link from one of my old posts, but I don’t have the appropriate permissions. So I figured I’d just ask here.
If I access the internet through my router, the router’s DHCP server assigns my computer an IP address that looks like 192.168.1.x, where x is some integer, at least 100. Most people who use similar routers to access the internet will also have addresses like that. This IP address is practically useless for identifying the computer from which a post was made. I would therefore assume that the router’s address is logged instead, which has a better chance of identifying, if not the individual computer, at least the ISP account through which the post was made. Can anyone confirm whether this assumption is correct?
To the outside world, you are the IP address that the router itself is assigned by your ISP. Your internal address, "192.168.x.y isn’t even technically a valid address out there on the “real net” (although, there are exceptions…sigh).
If you access a Board from one port on your router to the other port on your own router (such as me, when I access the UnaBoard from home), it does indeed log the 192.168.x.y address.
Not to knock the fine responses before me, but I’m not sure the question was precisely answered, so here it is: your routers external address is (very likely) the one seen by others on the internet, and it is the one logged here.
I say “very likely” as it’s possible the address is NATed a second time beyond your router, in which case it’ll be the second NAT routers outside address that is logged. And so on.