Good catch, make it so! -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Social Media and Community Professional Dell | Office of the CTO -----Original Message----- From: infrastructure-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:infrastructure-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Fenzi Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 4:33 PM To: Fedora Infrastructure Subject: Re: apache hostnamelookups sanity-check On Tue, 03 May 2011 17:21:25 -0400 seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey folks, > looking at the logs for something today I noticed that our logs are > showing hostnames, not ip addresses of the remote hosts. Which is > somewhat wasteful since - for the local logs we don't need that extra > resolver lookup - and it makes grepping complicated b/c you never know > what the dns reverse map is going to look like :( > > so I was thinking of changing the combined, error and common log > format for apache in our configs from using %h (remotehost) to using > %a (remote ip) [1] > > Whle we have hostnamelookups off in all of our configs it appears that > using %h overrides (or ignores) that. > > so - is there anything I'm not thinking about or forgetting that > changing the log format from %h to %a will result in? Not that I can think of or see off hand. awstats runs on the logs (or a subset of them), but it should do it's own lookups. kevin _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
