On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Aengus wrote:
>
> > it's been sitting like that for about 4 hours. I realize that this
> > look up could take awhile but should it be that long?
>
> That rather depends on how big your log file is, and how fast your DNS
> server is. DNS lookups are done one at a time, and are far, far slower
> than anything else that Analog does. If you're analysing a large log file,
> and your DNS server is slow (or has a slow connection to upstream DNS
> servers), Analog can take a very long time indeed to do DNS lookups.
>
If you turn debugging on, you can see this happening. But as Aengus said,
usually it's better to use one of the programs on the Helper Applications
Page to do DNS lookups for you.
--
Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
Statistical Laboratory, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB, England
"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
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