You're right - that would explain it.
Should have thought of that - sorry for wasting your time & thanks for the
extremely fast response!
Bruce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Analog mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [analog-help] HostExclude not entirely effective?
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Bruce Jeffreson wrote:
>
> > ENVIRONMENT:
> > - Windows 2000 Professional, IIS, W3SVC log files (all fields enabled)
> >
> > WHAT I DID (etc):
> > Run analog on the log files & all seems fine.
> > Notice that our own IP addresses are turning up
> > I want to COMPLETELY exclude our own machines from the analysis, so I
add to analog.cfg:
> > HOSTEXCLUDE 213.155.156.*
> > ...
> > I would expect this to tell analog to COMPLETELY IGNORE any lines where
the c-ip field matches a HOSTEXCLUDE line/pattern (ie as if those lines were
physically removed from the logfiles before analog is run)
> >
>
> That's exactly what it does.
>
> > This seems to reduce most of the counts, which is good
> > But the excluded addresses are still turning up in the 'Referring Site
Report'
> >
> > Consequently, I have no confidence that our own machines are being
excluded from ALL reports.
>
> Well, those machines will still appear in the Referring Site Report if
there
> are logfile lines where they occur in the cs(referrer) field, but not in
the
> c-ip field. Could this explain it?
>
> --
> Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
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