Am Sonntag, 18. September 2005 15:38 schrieb Christian Biere: > Florian Lindner wrote: > > > Please be sure to have a DNS name for your GWC that you can remove when > > > you no longer want to run it. > > > > That could more be a problem. You talk about clients still hitting the > > host although there is no server anymore? I think I have a hostname which > > I can at least remove for some time. > > The first rule of GWebCache club is: Use a dedicated hostname. The > hostname will be contaminated for eternity.
I don't want to have it contaminated for eternity and I don't really think it is. But it wouldn't be a problem to take this hostname out of DNS for like half a year. What do exactly mean with contanimated? What traffic do you think I'll still have after half a year without any GWC servers and answering with ICMP REJECT upon requests? > There's no other way > than DNS to get rid of client requests. Actually, thanks to the > incompetence of Sun Microsystems Java clients will keep your server > busy for a while in any case, as the JVM caches DNS lookups until > the end of all days. Fortunately, most people don't keep their > clients running that long but I've certainly seen a few that came > back weeks after the hostname had been removed from DNS or changed > to a different host. However, don't be scared, that's really just > a few clients. That won't be a problem. > If you have a DynDNS.org account I can probably transfer one of > the hostnames I used previously to your account. This way you > would more or less immediately see how much bandwidth/memory/CPU > it takes and older clients would find it as well. No, it's a static IP with a .de Domain used for the GWC: > > AFAIK Ghostwhirecrab produces logfiles in the Apache combined format. > > So I can use tools like awstasts to analyse the logs? Is there any > > special setup for awstats around? > > Yes, the access log should be compatible with any Apache logfile > analyzer but I don't know whether anyone actually uses awstats for > it. I'll give it a try... Florian ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Gtk-gnutella-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-gnutella-devel
