Found it in Google Analytics - wish our web person would have known about this.
--- Brian On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Christopher Fisk < [email protected]> wrote: > Check out google analytics. > > 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]> > > >
