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Diffstat (limited to 'net/massdns/DETAILS')
| -rwxr-xr-x | net/massdns/DETAILS | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/net/massdns/DETAILS b/net/massdns/DETAILS index c28e50d359..0c4ea7de5d 100755 --- a/net/massdns/DETAILS +++ b/net/massdns/DETAILS @@ -11,16 +11,18 @@ SOURCE_DIRECTORY=$BUILD_DIRECTORY/$SPELL-$VERSION cat << EOF -If you are running a high-load WEB server a worry about its efficiency, you most -probably have turned off reverse IP lookups for the logs, because using reverse +If you are running a high-load WEB server a worry about its efficiency, +you most +probably have turned off reverse IP lookups for the logs, because using reverse DNS to map a raw IP to a name is quite the resource waster. - -This means that your http access logs are full of things like 234.54.122.31, but + +This means that your http access logs are full of things like 234.54.122.31, +but you have no idea who actually came knocking. - -Once in a while, you would like to take that log and batch process it (maybe on + +Once in a while, you would like to take that log and batch process it (maybe on another machine) to convert those IP's back to names. - + This is precisely what massdns does. EOF |