[evla-sw-discuss] Deranged name lookups

[Rich Moeser]

Nope, I'm here in Socorro.

--Rich

Bryan Butler wrote:
> 
> maybe it's rich doing something?
> 
> not me - i'm in orlando at a meeting...
> 
>     -bryan
> 
> 
> On 5/24/06 16:10, James Robnett wrote:
> 
>>
>>    We're seeing about 11,000 DNS lookups per hour coming from one
>> of Qwests name servers for evla-mib address/host pairs.    Since
>> these are on a private network the best guess is somebody is looking
>> at the data from home and converting hostnames to IP's (the inverse
>> won't work since 10.x.y.z doesn't map to the NRAO from the outside
>> worlds view).
>>
>>    Any idea why somebody (probably in Albuquerque) needs to
>> do addr/host pair matching ?
>>
>>    If I had to guess I'd say somebody in Albuquerque has some big
>> chunk of EVLA archive on a laptop and are trying to do hostname
>> to ip conversion.
>>
>>    We really need to either get comfortable working with IP addresses
>> or load the IP addr/hostname pairs into software.   Handling 10's of
>> thousands of DNS lookups/hour * more antennas * more employees
>> isn't going to scale real well .... well it would I guess but it just
>> seems like a waste.
>>
>> James
>> ps:  If nothing else it's forcing our logs to rotate by size several
>> times a day.
>>
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