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Hello,

I have problem with webalizer. I want it to perform reverse dns lookups. The
problem is dns cache file is so huge! For example:

--->
globi@ornak globi $ webazolver -d -N 1
-D /var/www/webalizer/cache.db /var/log/httpd/xxxxx-access_log

Webalizer V2.01-10 (Linux 2.6.8-gentoo-r3) Polish
U¿ywam pliku logu /var/log/httpd/cms.graff.pl-access_log (clf)
Przeszukujê DNS (1): Giving 217.116.100.252 (fc6474d9) to Child 0 for
resolving
Child got work: fc6474d9(4)
Child got gprs6.idea.pl for fc6474d9(4), 13 bytes
Work requested from Child 0
Got a result (0): 217.116.100.252 -> gprs6.idea.pl
Child 0 back in task pool
Child 0 got closed input, shutting down
Reaped Child 1230
1 adres(ów) w 0.00 sekund

globi@ornak globi $ ls -l /var/www/webalizer/cache.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 globi globi 1179648 wrz 22 14:41 /var/www/webalizer/cache.db
globi@ornak globi $ ls -l /var/log/httpd/xxxxx-access_log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 248 wrz 21 14:02 /var/log/httpd/xxxxx-access_log
<---

As you can see file /var/log/httpd/xxxxx-access_log contains only 2 lines and
information regarding only 1 IP address. I have no idea why the DNS cache
file grows to over 1MB.

Another example:

--->
globi@ornak globi $ webazolver -N 10
-D /var/www/webalizer/cache.db /var/log/httpd/yyyyy-access_log

Webalizer V2.01-10 (Linux 2.6.8-gentoo-r3) Polish
U¿ywam pliku logu /var/log/httpd/yyyyy-access_log (clf)
Przeszukujê DNS (10): 532 adres(ów) w 37.02 sekund, 14/sec
globi@ornak globi $ ls -l /var/www/webalizer/cache.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 globi globi 183894016 wrz 22 14:47 /var/www/webalizer/cache.db
<---

This time access_log file contains 532 different IP addresses and webalizer
generates DNS cache file bigger than 180 MB!!

Have you got any ideas what's going on?
I use current version of webalizer and dnscache as a DNS resolver.
Mayby webalizer doesn't work well with dnscache??

Mayby I spoiled webalizer during installation? (But it works ok except
problems with dns). I wanted to install webalizer in polish language version
so I edited file
/usr/portage/app-admin/webalizer/webalizer-2.01.10-r4.ebuild
and added option 'with-language' so it looks like:

src_compile() {
econf --with-language=polish --enable-dns --with-db=/usr/include/db1/ || die
make || die
}

Then I made:

ebuild webalizer-2.01.10-r4.ebuild compile
ebuild webalizer-2.01.10-r4.ebuild install
ebuild webalizer-2.01.10-r4.ebuild qmerge

There was no problems during installation and as I said above webalizer works
ok.

regards,
Dariusz Zmokly

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