[WEB4LIB] Analyzing OPAC logs

[Fernando Gómez]

Hi,

First of all, thanks to the people who sent suggestions answering my
posting.

Now, could you please help me on this: our logs only record the IP numbers,
so I find myself with thousands of them, in need of some kind of *batch*
reverse DNS lookup. What do you suggest?

Thank you.

Fernando Gómez
Bahía Blanca, Argentina


> > A concrete point that puzzles me a bit (not exactly
> > library-related): what concrete information can you extract
> > form the list of IP numbers (the REMOTE_ADDR variable)? Does
> > the count of different IP numbers mean anything? Is there any
> > geographical information you can extract from them?
>
> If you have reverse DNS lookups enabled, you can extract a fair amount
> of information, including a general idea of where your users are coming
> from (country, organisation).  Take a look at some log analyser sample
> reports to see the kinds of things you can find out.  A basic example is
> here: http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/webstats/stats.html#dom
>
>