[thelist] Web Stats: Analog & Analogx's QuickDNS

[deke]

On 4 May 2001, at 20:28, Chris Montgomery posted a message which said:

> I use Analog to run my site stats through. Recently, I came across QuickDNS
> from Analogx (http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/qdns.htm),
> which is supposed to speed up the DNS lookup process in parsing the site
> stats. I have a simple question about QuickDNS, but three emails to the
> author have gone unanswered.
 
> So, I'm wondering if anyone here has used QuickDNS or if someone can answer
> my question:
 
> The readme file that comes with QuickDNS makes reference to a DNS file.
> Where does this file come from?  Assume I am starting from scratch and don't
> already have a DNS file yet. If I understand the instructions properly,
> QuickDNS looks for a DNS file that already exists.
> If I use the "DNS WRITE" command in my Analog config file, it writes DNS
> info to a file.
> So, do I first need to run Analog and create a DNS file and *then* go back
> and run QuickDNS?

Do you *need* to?  I don't know - but that's what I did.  QuickDNS
will read the config file for analog and do what it's supposed to do.
I put the QDNS stuff in the same directory as the analog stuff, and
use this for my batch file.
   qdns /G analog.cfg
   analog






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