Re: [squid-users] R: [squid-users] R: [squid-users] Client Computer Name in access.log

"Jason M. Kusar" wrote:
>
> You may be able to do this, but this really has nothing to do with squid
> finding the name. You need REVERSE DNS. This is set up totally independent
> of normal DNS. Reverse DNS allows you to map IP addresses back to names.
> If your computers are on a private network, you can set this up for yourself
> using bind or some other DNS server. If you are on a public network, you
> need to talk to your ISP about getting reverse DNS set up for your IP
> addresses.

For private use you can do so even without help of the ISP. Just create
a DNS zone in the DNS server(s) used by Squid mapping the IP addresses
to names with suitable PTR records.. This will only be known to the
applications using your DNS servers however..

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Feb 14 2003 - 06:36:06 MST