[analog-help] RE: display organisation name

[Shedi Shedi]

How about name the ip for.e.g 10.10.x to ABC and 10.20 to XYZ without
resorting to  DNS Lookup?

On Nov 16, 2007 12:58 AM, Aengus <analog07 at eircom.net> wrote:
> Terri Saunders <TSaunders at pharmami.co.uk> wrote:
> > I am using analog 6.0
> >
> > Can you please tell me how to display the organisation name in the
> > organisation report, rather than the number as shown below?
>
> http://analog.cx/docs/faq.html#faq140
>
> By default, Analog doesn't resolve the IP addresses recorded in your logfile into DNS names. For a small log (up to a couple of hundred IP addresses), you can have Analog do the lookups by adding these two lines to your analog.cfg file:
>
> DNSFILE dnscache
> DNS WRITE
>
> Because DNS lookups are slow, an Analog report that runs in 2 or 3 seconds without doing DNS lookups might take 10 minutes or an hour with DNS lookups. (Running Analog against the same logfile a second time will be faster, because the DNS lookups will be cached in the dnscache file).
>
> There are a number of "helper applications" that can be used to create that DNS cache file. They are a lot faster than Analog at doing DNS lookups, so if you have more than a couple of hundred IP addresses to deal with, they may be worth the added complexity.
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> Aengus
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