Re: [cobalt-users] Webalizer error ?

[jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jens Kristian Søgaard)]

Debbie Doerrlamm <wkdwich@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Change "off" to "on" and you'll be in business.  The Webalizer output will
> no longer
> be a line after line of IP addresses b/c your log files will have host
> names in them
> instead of IPs.  Woo-hoo!

I think this is a very bad method of getting host names instead of
ip-numbers in your webalizer reports. Doing it this way requires
Apache to lookup the name of every guest... this introduces a delay
each time a page is shown to a visitor (and it can be a quite long
delay).

The best thing is to disable hostname lookups in the Apache
configuration; and then do you lookups "offline". By offline I mean by
running logresolve (or similar) program on your logfiles before
feeding them to webalizer.

Using the newer versions of webalizer, it is possible to compile it so
that it automatically looks up names in the logfiles while processing
the logs.


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