"Lee, Bill" wrote:
> I'm trying to get a result that seems to be a hybrid of 2 reports: Request
> and Domain. I'd like to get counts of total requests (Request report) and
> total unique DNS requests (no report?) of a specific file. My thought is
> that these two numbers will bound the actual number of unique users. Once I
> have this range, large as it may be, I can start making guesses and
> assumptions.
First, that's a dangerous assumption. Most ISPs (good ones) have a ten-to-one
ratio of users and incoming lines (bad ones have even more users per line). They
dynamically assign an IP number (unique DNS request) to each line as it connects
and the user maitains that IP number for the balance of their session. However,
the next dial-up user will get the same IP number and would appear to your logs
as the same user (by your assumptions), when in fact there may be ten times that
many (or more).
But, as long as you're aware of that (and it sounds like you are)....
If you set up an analog config for the file in question, then the host report
will be exactly what you are looking for. It lists number of requests/host, but
each host is only listed once. Which gives you a count of unique hosts.
> Also, is it necessary to resolve numerical DNS's in order to produce a
> drill-down for the Domain report and/or for the report described in the
> previous paragraph? Can I get the reports to simply list the unresolved
> numerical DNS's?
Turn off DNS resolving and it will only give you numerical numbers
HTH,
--
Jeremy Wadsack
OutQuest Magazine
a Wadsack-Allen publication
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