Marco Bernardini wrote:
> > Just curious: if I have some years of old logs, with unresolved numerical
> > IPs, what happen if these IPs are moved to other domains?
> > In other words, if 2 years ago the IP 123.123.*.* was foo.net, and now it's
> > assigned partly to pepperoni.it and partly to bouilabaisse.fr (it's time to
> > lunch, uh!), what happens to old reports?
Stephen Turner wrote:
> They will use the new names. There is no way to know the old names, or when
> they changed, AFAIK.
That's why I set up our Web server to do DNS resolution when writing the
requests to the logs. I've also started replacing unresolved IPs with
aliases directly in the logs instead of using HOSTALIASes just in case
they change in the future.
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