Is there any way to force Segment JS client to use IPv6 instead of IPv4?

Asked Mar 04 '19 at 14:57

Active Mar 07 '19 at 05:36

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I have a device which has both IPv4 and IPv6 address. In my rails application, the request comes through Cloudflare, and the IP address extracted from X-Forwarded-For is IPv6 address. But when I sent a tracking event from JS client, it uses IPv4 by default. Is there any way to make the JS client use IPv6 instead of IPv4?

Because of this issue. I see the events from same device as coming from two different IPs. I tried converting the IPv4 to IPv6. But they are two different IPs (Not two different representations of the same IP).

edited Mar 06 '19 at 05:01

asked Mar 04 '19 at 14:57

Yedhu Krishnan

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Does the tracking event go through cloudflare as well? – Bergi Mar 04 '19 at 15:49
@Bergi No. It is a direct API request from JS to Segment using `analytics.track` – Yedhu Krishnan Mar 06 '19 at 04:20
can you provide the information about the device ? – Towkir Mar 12 '19 at 06:04
@TowkirAhmed I'm just using a MacBook connected to internet. What information do you need about the device? – Yedhu Krishnan Mar 12 '19 at 07:26
Have you seen this answer? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36294031/get-visitors-ipv4-behind-cloudflare – ginman Mar 13 '19 at 18:33
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It seems like it might be better to use a custom identifier for a user, rather than their IP. Imagine you have users coming from an office or enterprise vpn...their IP is going to be shared. – ginman Mar 13 '19 at 18:35

Is there any way to force Segment JS client to use IPv6 instead of IPv4?

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