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Re: Bug#137340: ITP: ip2host -- Resolve IPs to hostnames in web server logs



On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Wilmer van der Gaast 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?
>
>

For performance reasons, many webmasters like to turn off address lookups
in access.log and only do them when they actually process the logs later.
I imagine that's what this program is for.

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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
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