View Single Post
Moogs
Hates the Infotainment
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
 
2012-03-13, 18:07

MO' HELP NEEDED MO'FO's!

Trying to figure out the best way to set a range of IP addresses for an Analytics filter. Since my cable connection is dynamically assigned IP... I'm not sure how I could automate this. I think every time I reset my modem, I'd have to reset my Analytics filter. Which... ends up being 1-2x a week. Not the worst ever but how do you guys filter yourselves out of your own site data?

Let's say (this is Googles' sample IP) my address was 63.212.171.1. If i said filter out anything that starts with 63.212.171, the most I could be omitting is 255 people, right? And wouldn't all of them be in my immediate neighborhood / on my node? Or Might Comcast use the first three octets (or whatever they're called - the first three components) for my region of Illinois one day, next day it's being used by people in Philadelphia? I thought some aspect of IP addresses was fixed relative to geography but I'm not 100% sure.

...into the light of a dark black night.

Last edited by Moogs : 2012-03-13 at 19:13.
  quote