From: waldo kitty 

"Geo."  wrote in news:465b1cc5$1{at}w3.nls.net:

> "waldo kitty"  wrote in message
> news:Xns993D8F54CD27Eme42{at}216.144.1.254...
>
>>>> localhost - - [02/May/2007:08:42:43 -0400] "GET
/windowslinks.html
>>>> HTTP/1.1" 200 12642 "-" "Mozilla/4.0
(compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows
>>>> NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
>
>> can see by the logs, is the IP which is rDNS's to get the host name...
>
> Do an nslookup on 216.144.26.33 and 26.34 which is my IP here. Do you
> really think I have a DS3 to my house and do you really think I own that
> domain?

i did the nslookup and would not have taken that ds3 portion as an
indication of what kind of connection there was...

> rDNS is simple to fake. You get a static IP, call your ISP and tell them
> what you want your rDNS to be. Of course if you do a forward lookup on
> the rDNS response it won't resolve or won't match so you can tell it's
> spoofed but for the most part nobody bothers checking unless you use
> something they know isn't correct. I could easily make my rDNS read as
> localhost.

hummm...

> 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?

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