Security zone with IP addresses

[nminchin]

In your Perspective client, what is the value of session.props.host? This is what is used for the IP address filtering.

This is for 8.1.5 at least, I have a feeling it's changed in later versions as I think hostnames are actually supported now with reverse DNS.

This is what I was talking about, 8.1.10 (8.1.9 was canned)

Perspective - Scripting - Get Computer name and IP of client

In 8.1.9 you’ll be able to opt-in to a setting on the gateway that has the gateway do a reverse DNS lookup to attempt to verify the hostname based on the provided IP: “When enabled, Ignition’s web server will attempt to resolve the remote HTTP client’s hostname by performing a reverse DNS lookup using the remote HTTP client’s IP address where appropriate, which could have a performance impact for each request which attempts a hostname lookup. When disabled, Ignition’s web server will not attem…