Unresolved IP Address

[amogambi]

I am getting far too many Unresolved IP Address on my web stats programs.
I am using AW Stats and Webalizer.
Can anyone tell how I can get meaningful information from the Unresolved IP Address error?

amogambi

[felgall]

Well you could try holding a gun to the heads of everyone who has configured their IP address so that it doesn't supply all of the information about them that you want. You'd need a lot of guns and to be in a lot of places at once though. If they set up privacy so that the information is not available then you can't get it without the gun.

[amogambi]

Many thanks for your reply which has now clarified to me IP Address configuration.
I had wrongly believed that I had done something incorrectly. Now that I have grasped IP Address configuration, I have no use for a gun

Cheers
amogambi

[kieranmullen2]

For historical reference (i see the user is banned) and a response that is more helpful than the one given.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_dns

Reverse DNS is provided by many hosts and ISPs. Whether they be on dialup or a cable modem. It is helpful when looking at your stats to know if many hits from an ip are from the google spider or a visitor or something else.

I am assuming that the reason why BH turns this this useful feature off by default is because it is makes stats processing more resource intensive. One can turn the option back on as I have learned through another post...
http://forums.bluehost.com/showthread.php?t=11116&highlight=unresolved

"Under your /tmp/awstats directory, find the .conf fine and change DNSLookup=0 to DNSLookup=1"

If you have a bunch of sites I would suggest downloading a text replace tool such as BKReplaceEm http://www.snapfiles.com/get/bkreplace.html

However from a tech I have been told and I have just experienced that the files are often overwritten by various server maintenance activities.

A suggestion for all I would ask that people email sales and have them relay it forward that we would like the option left on to make stats more useful. There is always using google stats as a free add on, but that is besides the point... http://www.google.com/analytics/

[Early Out]

However from a tech I have been told and I have just experienced that the files are often overwritten by various server maintenance activities.
If you chmod the awstats.yoursite.com.conf file to 444, it won't get overwritten.