<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Aengus" wrote:
> >Lets get back to basics here - nobody lets Analog do anything more
> than
> >trivial amounts of DNS on it's own - if you've got thousands of
> records,
> >you're using a "helper" to do the resolution.
>
> --> My log files are between 500,000 and 1,000,000 lines per day
> and I am not using a helper on NT.
Then I suggest that you're not in a position to advise anyone on how DNS
should be handled with Analog.
> Our site is being hit from all over the
> world, from homes as well as companies, because of this the IP addresses
are
> not a set group that will enable the DNS cache file to cover them after
a
> dozen runs or so.
In other words, you're in exactly the same boat as thousands of other
people using Analog.
> I am a simple man, as they say, and I think if analog (which is
> brilliant and highly configurable) is to be used by more Web site
> administrators then making it swifter and avoiding building a huge DNS
cache
> file (mine grew to 11 M Bytes after just 2 weeks worth of logs...)
So what if it's 11MB? How big were your 2 weeks worth of logs? You've made
a mountain out of this molehill!
> is the
> way to go. I guess the question is therefor a bit more fundamental -
who is
> analog aimed at. If it just for the computer literate programming class
> then fine - lets stick to pre-processing and writing perl scripts. If
> analog is aimed at providing a solution for lesser mortals then put in
the
> ability to avoiding looking up unresolvable address and alias them to
their
> ISPs.
Analog is aimed at Stephen Turner. He wrote it, and he's more than happy
to share it with whoever else feels it meets their needs.
> I for one would be happy to make available all the lines of HOSTALIAS
> I have developed from looking up these addresses on ARIN and RIPE and
save
> people a lot of work, let their runs go through faster and have small
DNS
> cache files.
There's already a program out there that automatically looks up these
addresses from ARIN and RIPE, and makes the information available to
Analog without changing a single line of Analog code. The size of the DNS
cache file is simply an irrelevancy - in a couple of years reading this
list, I don't recall anyone encountering problems that could be attributed
solely to a karge DNS cache file.
Aengus
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