[analog-help] What helper app do you use for DNS lookup?

[Christoph Lechner]

Hi to all,

[this is my first post to this list; the topic is maybe a little bit OT]

I just tried to compile fastresolve quite hard, but I was not able to
figure out how to build it on a current system (I use Debian 4.0). It
(the configure script) always complains about the libdb C++ support,
regardsless I'm sure the correct Debian package (libdb4.3++-dev) is
installed.
The fastresolve package doesn't look well-maintained by the way, as IMHO
the latest release is somewhat old.

So what alternatives come to mind? I need a fast tool with a lot of DNS
lookups in parallel (say, at least a few hundred), as the logfiles to
analyze are about 4G still gzip compressed. Cacheing of the DNS lookup
information in a local database would be fine, too.

BTW: Is there a way to integrate the DNS resolver in analog, executing a
user definable, arbitrary command everytime just before it begins to
read the next logfile?

Thanks,
	C. Lechner