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There are lots of discussions about reverse DNS lookups in the G forum to try and prevent false user-agents crawling your website, I would like to set this up on IIS webserver. After looking into I’m starting to get out of me depth, can any one answer some questions and clarify some points please:
1.Altering the metabase.xml file (SCARY) I’m to set up the enablereversedns = true (is that correct?) once I’ve enabled this it sounds like this will fire for every request.
2.I’ve read some where that I have to change the log file location for this because it will alter my log file instead of ip address it’ll show domain name, I’d like to have both is that possible?
3.If that’s true and I can have both/ separate files how do I alter that in the Action, properties, section in web properties. But doesn’t that alter my log file location? Or does that path get entered in to the metabase file.
4.We have a fairly high traffic website so really I would only like to do a lookups on specific user-agents and not on every single access is this possible?
I hope this makes sense. As you can see I’m well out of my depth here, but I’d appreciate any advice on whether this is possible to do or have I completely misunderstood how this works on an IIS server, it sounds so easy on an Apache?
Vimes.
it will alter my log file instead of ip address it’ll show domain name
Wowzers, isn't that going to absolutly cripple your server with a decent traffic site?
Vimes.
