Re: [pmacct-discussion] Outputting DNS equivalent of src_host and dst_host IP addresses?

2016-12-08 Thread Hiep Huynh
t: Re: [pmacct-discussion] Outputting DNS equivalent of src_host and dst_host IP addresses? Hi Hiep, Unfortunately this is not possible today nor in the roadmap. The easiest thing that comes to mind is a two-steps kind of export: you export from pmacct into a script, running local, that enriche

Re: [pmacct-discussion] Outputting DNS equivalent of src_host and dst_host IP addresses?

2016-12-07 Thread Paolo Lucente
; Bill Nash > Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 3:27 PM > To: pmacct-discussion@pmacct.net > Cc: Steven Sheehy; Mark Ponthier > Subject: Re: [pmacct-discussion] Outputting DNS equivalent of src_host and > dst_host IP addresses? > > DNS lookups will effectively rate limit f

Re: [pmacct-discussion] Outputting DNS equivalent of src_host and dst_host IP addresses?

2016-12-05 Thread Hiep Huynh
, 2016 3:27 PM To: pmacct-discussion@pmacct.net Cc: Steven Sheehy; Mark Ponthier Subject: Re: [pmacct-discussion] Outputting DNS equivalent of src_host and dst_host IP addresses? DNS lookups will effectively rate limit flow export, though, even if you're hitting a cache. Do it after the fact i

Re: [pmacct-discussion] Outputting DNS equivalent of src_host and dst_host IP addresses?

2016-12-05 Thread Bill Nash
DNS lookups will effectively rate limit flow export, though, even if you're hitting a cache. Do it after the fact in your presentation layer with a cache, don't do it at the collection level, because you'll also have to store it. I dunno what your flow volume is, but this is generally a bad idea. Y

[pmacct-discussion] Outputting DNS equivalent of src_host and dst_host IP addresses?

2016-12-05 Thread Hiep Huynh
When aggregating on src_host and dst_host, the outputs are IP addresses. Is it possible to also get DNS equivalent? Can pmacct perform a reverse DNS lookup and output it along with the IP addresses? If not, is there a workaround involving the 'networks_file' option where both IP address and