Christine Rorer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're really too good. I was unaware of this. Now, if there are > 1, do I > just pick one??? How were these assigned initially?
If you only have a couple of hundred hosts, just pick one of the DNS server addresses and use it. If you have huge log files, with tens of thousands of hosts in them, then you should be aware that QuickDNS can really hammer a DNS server, so, in theory you should check with your network administrator before doing this. If one of the DNS servers is also doing a couple of other tasks, s/he might prefer you to use a different DNS server, or possibly one server is running on newer hardware, or a different OS, or there might even be a "spare" DNS server in place that isn't advertised. Local knowledge is the only answer in this situation. Or you could schedule your first run to occur at an off peak time, to minimise disruption. (Note that I don't remember any reports of anyone bringing down a DNS server using QuickDNS, but people with really huge log files tend to have fairly big servers, and fairly robust network infrastructures. But if you're a new Analog user suddenly looking at 3 years worth of web logs, you might be tempted to over reach your networks abilities!) > When did the configuration occur for DNS Servers? Your machine is told about what DNS servers to use at the same time as it gets it's IP address. That might be at bootup, if you are using BOOTP or DHCP, or the information might be assigned to the machine when it was set up. Again, your Aengus +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
