Hi. On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Barry Hill wrote:
Hi,
Monday, December 18, 2000, 11:51:25 PM, you wrote:
N> I hope to hell that you don't log DNS names in you web server logs!!??!! N> FYI, you should NEVER log dns names for anything. It slows you server N> down to the speed of DNS replies, which is most definately a "bad idea" (tm)
Hmm, I suppose you've got a point - but FQDNs are sure helpful in determining whence visitors came.
And AFAIK only expensive log analysers (e.g. WebTrends) resolve IPs while analysing logs.
Or is there a script I could run in crontab to convert unresolved IPs in the background?
Just use logresolve, which is shipped with apache. Use it before analyzing the logs with e.g. WebAlizer.
To not be completely off topic: Who uses NIS these days? I don't know anyone ... If it's not popular, then why is it enabled as default?
It's not, go figure...
Best regards,
Barry mailto:barry@penrallt.clara.co.uk
Greetings
olli
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