From: "Geo." 

"waldo kitty"  wrote in message
news:Xns993F6F627C4ECme42{at}216.144.1.254...

>> See if there is an option in your logging to log the IP instead of the
>> rDNS. That will give you a much more reliable way to see what's going
>> on.
>
> well, that's the thing... apache does take the IP but i have it configured
> for "HostnameLookups ON" so as to not have to run a seperate
process later
> on to gather that info for my stats analysis stuff... maybe it isn't all
> that important to know that i have x visitors from dallas tx on comcasts
> network but it is interesting... awstats and webalizer both agregate these
> items and i've been watching them for years... not that it really means
> anything, i guess...
>
> do you gather and process stats on the locations of your visitors or are
> you
> one of those huge shops that has so much traffic that you simply don't
> even
> log it?

We log the IP, our stats package does the reverse lookups when it processes
the log files. That way the truth is logged and the lie is generated when
stats are run. So if something looks hoekey I can rerun stats with reverse
lookups turned off and see the real picture.

Geo.

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5