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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @06:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @06:50PM (#162482)

    ...because somehow I get regularly logged out. I assume this has something to do with the fact that we have two outgoing IP addresses, that get used in load-sharing. So if I can't be bothered to log in, it goes up as AC...

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Marand on Thursday March 26 2015, @01:42AM

    by Marand (1081) on Thursday March 26 2015, @01:42AM (#162585) Journal

    Default is to invalidate login cookies on subnet change, so that may be why. In the password section of your account preferences you can change that, though. It's something I need to change too, because it gets annoying to relog all the time when using my tablet to read the site from different locations.

    It's probably not the best setting to choose as default, due to the ubiquity of mobile browsing now.

    • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Sunday March 29 2015, @12:17PM

      by isostatic (365) on Sunday March 29 2015, @12:17PM (#163788) Journal

      What's a subnet? When was the last time you saw a genuine /24 that wasn't part of a supernet or subnet? Most ISPs will assign a dhcp address from >/24, most companies will have /24.

      Please don't tell me they're using class a/b/c from the pre CIDR times!

      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by NCommander on Sunday March 29 2015, @05:53PM

        by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Sunday March 29 2015, @05:53PM (#163884) Homepage Journal

        Unfortunately, yes. Slash has some special IP handling we inhertiated and to change it would require a massive root channel which ATM isn't doable.

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