in reply to Re^3: Getting client ip address from socket connect
in thread Getting client ip address from socket connect

Yes, that's because peeraddr() returns the raw in_addr struct. Either convert it to a string with

$remotehost=inet_ntoa($client->peeraddr);

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or use

$remotehost=$client->peerhost;

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like I suggested in my node.

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