Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 06:55:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Adam David <adam@veda.is> To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG (Gary Palmer) Cc: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, 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: <199703040655.GAA14507@veda.is> In-Reply-To: <20287.857456088@orion.webspan.net> from Gary Palmer at "Mar 4, 97 01:14:48 am"
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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 > -- > Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member > FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info > Or since access control is obviously not dependent on hostname, the logging could be done with DNS conversion asynchronously. Logfiles would be more readable immediately, at the expense of slight delay in availability of the latest entries. -- Adam David <adam@veda.is>
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