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Date:      Tue, 04 Mar 1997 01:14:48 -0500
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Cc:        Andreas Klemm <andreas@freefall.freebsd.org>, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/www/wwwstat - Imported sources 
Message-ID:  <20287.857456088@orion.webspan.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Mar 1997 21:57:26 %2B0100." <199703032057.VAA01169@campa.panke.de> 

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Wolfram Schneider wrote in message ID
<199703032057.VAA01169@campa.panke.de>:
> www.freebsd.org do not log domain names, only ip addresses. I guess
> this makes the access faster and save bandwidth.

Reverse DNS lookups are not done for one reason ... too many people
have broken DNS information. In the time it takes the server to
realise this, the person could have aborted and gone elsewhere. It
also makes for a more interactive response, even for people with valid
DNS data. It's not that difficult to convert IP->hostnames
automatically at logfile rotation time... I seem to remember there is
even a script in apache to do it....

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info



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