Dear Aengus,

> > Is it possible to apply different DNS commands to different LOGFILEs?
> > I rotate my logs on a monthly basis and when they're rotated Apache's
> > logresolve is used to resolve numerical IP addresses. Analog is used
> > to produce reports on the rotated logs (that have already been parsed
> > with logresolve) and the current log (which just has numerical IP
> > addresses). I'd like Analog to run with DNS WRITE for the current log,
> > but with DNS NONE for the rotated logs (since the only numerical IP
> > addresses they contain are ones that won't resolve to a name).
> >
> > Is there any way of doing what I want?
> 
> I don't think you can do this directly in Analog, but even if there was a
> way, you might find it unsatisfactory, because Analog is quite slow at
> resolving DNS entries. You would be far better off using one of the DNS
> helpers listed at http://analog.cx/helpers/index.html#dns to create a DNS
> file for the unresolved log file and just use DNS READ.

Thanks very much - I hadn't thought of that. I've always let Analog do
my DNS lookups. Care to recommend one of the DNS helpers? I'll be
running it under UNIX.

Cheers,
Ian

--
Dr Ian Sealy
Internet Development
Institute for Learning and Research Technology
University of Bristol

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