On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Here is the real CRUNCH question. What problems would it cause to
> do the HOSTALIAS'ing before the DNS lookup code ?
>
> I can't think why you want to HOSTALIAS a range of addresses and
> also have a DNS lookup performed on them as well - what am I missing
> (logically not personally please)
>
You didn't used to get your server to resolve IP addresses, but now you
do. You want to make a HOSTALIAS for gamma.statslab.cam.ac.uk. Then
131.111.20.18 in the old logs should resolve to the alias, not to gamma.
More fundamentally, it agrees with what happens for all the other types of
aliases, in the following sense: you should always look at the report, not
at the logfile, to see what to put on the left hand side of ALIAS command.
I would be extremely reluctant to break this intuition.
--
Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
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