On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Stephen Turner wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Adam Trachtenberg wrote:
>
> > Ideally, there'd be some kind of regular expression backreference
> > abilities to be used in defining the maps. So, I'd shorten
> > *.*.(*).(??).da.uu.net to $1.$2.da.uu.net. (Assume . is a literal dot, not
> > any character.)
>
> But then you're back to defining a case for each domain, and you're no better
> off than with the current SUBDOMAIN (indeed, SUBDOMAIN *.*.da.uu.net will
> accomplish exactly your example).
True. Then I guess the problem is that I like the Domain Report as it is
now, but I don't like the Host report. :) More specifically, it's useful
and interesting for me to see which countries people are coming from in
one glance. If I put a zillion subdomains in the middle of that report
then it sullies it up and it's harder to scan through.
OTOH, any one individual host isn't so important to me; there isn't much
information there. However, by collapsing hosts together, I can get a good
idea about where my users are coming from as a group. If I have lots of
AOL or WebTV users, then I need to make sure I have simple pages. If I
have lots of, say, mediaone.net users then I know they all have high speed
cable modems. Also, the Host report lists unresolved domains, which the
Domain report omits. (For obvious reasons, of course.)
Given that tradeoff, I've taken to trying to bend the Host report to my
will rather then messing with the domain report. Also, as you pointed out
earlier, it seems more intutive to try to truncate information from a
large report, which is what a HOSTALIAS does instead of adding back
information that's not there, which is what the SUBDOMAIN command does.
Actually, I've just figured out the real reason I use HOSTALIAS instead of
SUBDOMAIN. The original configuration file of that came with the version
of Analog I installed used some HOSTALIAS-like command to cat together
ISPs and I've just followed its lead.
Maybe you could introduce a new report, TLD Report, which only lists the
top-level domains. I'd start running that in addition to the Domain
report, which I could modify by using the SUBDOMAIN option. Alternately,
I'd even settle for an option that lists *.??? for 3 letter TLDs and
*.??.?? for 2 letter TLDs. It's pretty coarse, but could give me enough of
a hint that I could run more detailed reports if I found anything
interesting.
-adam
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