On 2013 May 07 (Tue) at 14:26:07 -0400 (-0400), Ted Unangst wrote:
:On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 15:18, Stuart Henderson wrote:
:
:> I don't feel too strongly about it but my preference would be to
:> log both. There are circumstances (e.g. dhcp with dynamic dns updates)
:> where it's useful to have the reverse at the time of connection.
:
I feel somewhat strongly, that it should be IP addresses only. Should
we log both in apache/nginx?
:Are you talking about internal or external networks? If it's your
:network you should be able to figure it out, and if it's the internet,
:I don't know of any ISPs that give you control over dynamic reverse
:lookups.
:
:I don't like logging both because there's a not unreasonable chance
:the reverse name will be a complete lie, which will just mislead you.
:
I recently saw an IP address that reversed record was 'localhost.'
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