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On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Jamie Furtner <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011-03-15 6:36 PM, Brian Weeden wrote: >> >> We're trying to do some metrics on who's visiting our website, and I >> thought >> we should be doing a reverse DNS lookup on the IP log. That way we could >> tell if someone is coming from an IP block owned by Comcast they are >> likely >> coming from home, or if someone is coming from a .gov/mil address. >> >> Our web host is telling us that "host names" are about as good as we can >> get, and they are not very useful. The Google web cache is in the top 5, >> along with www.web.com, and the other top 3 are other domains we own. >> >> Am I missing something here in how difficult it is to figure this out? >> >> --- >> Brian >> > > It sounds like you're not getting the actual source IP addresses from the > web site's access log. Most log viewing software gives you some level of > visibility into the source IP addresses, but it's probably not at the level > you want. Can you ask for the access logs from your site and process them > yourself? It sounds like what your hosting provider is giving you is the > referrers, but you want the actual source IP address. Referrer shows where > users clicked from to get to the site(like a Google search URL). > > Jamie > > -- > Jamie Furtner <[email protected]> >
