Allow me to throw my hat into this one. It looks like many people are
looking for a way to roll up the reporting to what would be considered
a summary for a particular subdomain without knowing in advance how
many dots the name contains. Some time ago we used WWWSTATS to
produce our log file stats. WWWSTATS uses an approach of allowing you
to drop the left most portion of the name, which in many cases
resolves to a specific user. The beauty of this approach is that you
don't have to know the length in advance. The program did it
automatically. For those people who still want some additional
customization, you'd still need to make the subdomain command
available.
Ed Kabat
Web Administrator
Defense Finance and Accounting Service
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Subject: Re: [analog-help] HOSTALIAS mappings
Author: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at ~inmail
Date: 3/18/99 7:53 AM
Stephen Turner wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Jim Sander wrote:
>
> > Actually, this is something I have thought about a lot recently- it
> > seems to me that it would be a nice feature to only include the top-level
> > domain, and then one more part...
> >
> > For example, if you resolve a name to "statlab.cam.ac.uk" simply list it
> > as "ac.uk" - or maybe "cam.ac.uk" to cover things like ".co.uk" Maybe a
> > runtime thing, like "SIGDOMPARTS 3" which would give you three "dots
> > worth" of domain information from the top level. (cam.ac.uk in this case)
> >
>
> SUBDOMAIN *.* (or *.*.*) does exactly this.
>
> As Jeremy Wadsack pointed out:
> > most non-government U.S. sites have one fewer "dot worth" of info than
> > the rest of the world.
>
> So one could do SUBDOMAIN *.com, *.*.uk etc. Actually it's not even as
> simple as Jeremy implies. For example, Germany takes the US approach --
> so www.uni-heidelberg.de but www.cam.ac.uk.
this is not what we are talking about...the SUBDOMAIN only seems to work
with the "Domain Report" while we are trying to combine things in the
"Host Report" therefore HOSTALIAS seems like the only thing that
combines
them.
pac
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