Re: [Summary-Talk] Properly handling internal host names

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/23/03 4:47 PM Bill_Royds@pch.gc.ca (Bill_Royds@pch.gc.ca) wrote:

>It is possible for summary to add the default domain to host names 
>without any domain parts?
>for example a referrer line
>
>http://intranet/content/links.html
>
>is given an unknown domain instead of the correct intranet.mycompany.com 
>if the default DNS domain is mycompany.com
>It should be left as it is in the report line, but included in the report 
>for domain mycompany.com rather than unknown, once a DNS look-up for 
>intranet.mycompany.com returns a valid IP number.

That isn't necessarily the correct domain. I could have a local host in 
my domain called "intranet" that happens to have a link to your site and 
it might be logged exactly the same way. There isn't any way to be sure 
which default domain search rule was in effect, so there isn't any way to 
know what the domain really was.

Jason

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