[analog-help] general web question

[Aengus]

Aimee Mandeville <aimee at edc.uri.edu> wrote:
> I'm analyzing our ISA logs and I want to be sure that I am
> interpreting things correctly.  In the host report I have IP
> addresses that appear to be coming from GOOGLE.  My question is if
> someone is connecting to my website through GOOGLE is the ip address
> that is reported in  my log or will it be the ip address of their
> actual computer?  Sorry if this question is not appropriate for this
> forum.

If the IP adress belongs to Google, then the request came from google - 
probably the google spider which obviously has to read the pages on your 
website before it can add them to it's index.

If an ordinary user does a search on google, and clicks on a link in the 
google results, the IP address in your log will be the users IP address, 
not Googles.

Aengus