On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> hello,
>
> i am working in a department within a big intranet (40.000-50.000 clients). The
> IP-Adresses were given dynamicaly within fixed IP-Ranges for each department.
> From time to time, analog starts a new DNS-Lookup over the stored IP-Adresses in
> the log-files. But when the former used IP-Adresses are currently not used, he
> can't resolve the DNS entry.
> This won't be helpful, because i always got 40% - 60% of unresolved IP-Adresses
> in my reports. The DNS-Cache files grows larger and larger and the "Time to
> live" for each IP-Adress is only for the moment analog generates the statistics.
> Maybe there is a way, to stop analog from doing a new dns-lookup ??
Yes, you can set the DNSGOODHOURS very high.
> But how many
> does this statistics say about the visitors ? not many, i think ;-(
> But what would be, if analog can create a relation between the resolved
> DNS-Entry and the former and actual IP-Adress and store it within a list. OK, it
> could grow very large, but when you have space for the log files, then you will
> also have space for the DNS-Cache file ?!?
>
Well, the other thing you could do is input them yourself as HOSTALIAS'es,
if you have a list of them somewhere. Then you don't even need DNS lookups.
--
Stephen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
Statistical Laboratory, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB, England
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Dog. Instead, we will show Mortal Kombat: Annihilation." Cable & Wireless
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