Each time a page is requested the webserver would have to do a lookup. It's really bad. If you're only expecting a few 1000 hits/day it's probably not a big deal, it'll still be noticably slower serving pages to your web clients though. There are lots of scripts available that will do the name lookups for the IP's in a logfile. You could write it in awk (if you knew it), perl would be well suited too. The easiest thing would just be to find one on-line though. There may even be one that comes with the apache distro, I don't remember. Adam Maloney Systems Administrator Sihope Communications On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, mjn wrote: > > This is a good thing, turning on DNS lookups causes Apache to suffer a > > huge performance hit. > > What kind of a performance hit are we talking about? > > > I could probably hack something up in awk pretty quick if you have trouble > > finding anything. > > Well I'd appretiate the help... > > knowledge -> 0 as I -> awk > > Thanks > ____________________________ > Mike Neuharth > ADCS Technology Specialist > http://www.umn.edu/adcs > > E-Mail : mjn at umn.edu > Page Mail : 6126486512 at page.metrocall.com > http://nifty.dsl.visi.com/ > ____________________________ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org