On Monday 01 December 2003 01:39, Marty Landman wrote:
> >I think typing: > >host delliver.mshome.net > > > >*on that machine* doesn't give a valid ip address or an adress that is not > > on the workstation. > > Actually I got the corrent ip's for each of my four windoz boxes by > querying each with their name on mshome.net. > > >Since you're refering to 'ics' I guess you're gateway is an MS box and > >doesn't > >run DNS or a DNS forwarder at best. > > Right, I think. It's a windoz xp home edition box getting dns via dial-up. > At least I think I'm saying that correctly. I checked your original message again. It says something about some SwamiSalami hostname. Is that by any chance the 'ServerName' of the main server? That is what mod_unique_id is trying to resolve. If no ServerName is set, it takes the hostname of the computer. > The apache manual entry for mod_unique_id didn't say a whole lot. This must > be a default and I wonder if it's something I will eventually miss. What's > it do, or can you point to a more in depth explanation I can read? It creates a unique id for every request. This is used by mod_usertrack to generate a session id. There are some other modules that also use this feature, but I can't think of any off-hand. It's also convenient if you use an log-analyzer that checks whether there are duplicate lines. You can log the created id in a separate field and thus make sure that "the same file requested twice within a second, from the same host, by the same browser" (think "/images/spacer.gif") is something else then "a duplicate logline in the file". In a nutshell: if you don't care about mod_usertrack or wrongly detected duplicate loglines, you have no use for mod_unique_id. Any other apache module requiring it, will complain soon enough, but since you have it running without - you seem to have no such dependency. -- Melvyn ======================================================= FreeBSD sarevok.webteckies.org 5.2-BETA FreeBSD 5.2-BETA #1: Sat Nov 29 00:15:33 CET 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ SAREVOK_NOFW_DBG i386 =======================================================
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