On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Stephen Turner wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Jeremy Wadsack wrote:
> >
> > How about creating a HOST SUMMARY in addition to host report? If I've been
> > following this thread correctly, I think that's what you're getting at
>
> I agree. I'm just not sure how to summarise an unknown host automatically. Is
> cutting off the first part of the name good enough?
Probably. The best way might be to feed in a big logfile and see how it
looks after you've cut off the first part, first & second parts, etc.
Honestly, though, I think the best way would be to flip the model. So,
instead of figuring out the number of parts to cut off, you'd figure out
the number of parts to keep. This is probably slower, however, and there'd
be differences between 2 letter TLDs and 3 letter TLDs. (Because you'd
probably want one more level of depth in 2 letter TLDs.)
Still, this way you're guaranteed that you won't trim data too far. What
if, for instance, my hostname resolved to just student.net, would that be
turned into .net? That might be bad.
-adam
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