Re: Bug#137340: ITP: ip2host -- Resolve IPs to hostnames in web server logs
* Wilmer van der Gaast (lintux@bigfoot.com) wrote :
> Sebastien J. Gross@lists.debian-devel@Fri, 08 Mar 2002 12:22:17 +0100:
> > * Package name : ip2host
> > Description : Resolve IPs to hostnames in web server logs
> >
> Hmm... If webserver == Apache, the webserver does this already. I see a
> lot of hostnames in my /var/log/apache/access.log, almost no IP
> addresses. So what does ip2host do? Some nifty caching?
>
doing reverse resolves _can_ create performance issues under heavy usage. A
fair number of sites prefer to do it when they process the logs.
-Thom
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