Hey Russ/stats keepers...help

[cpars]

How do I enter an IP range for the dial up connections.

 

[MolecA]

If you're talking about the ppstats hostname recognizing, yeah I'd also like to know.

sorry I couldn't help

 

[cpars]

Yes MolecA
I believe we are talking about the same thing. Aol is especially hard to track when you have several folks repoting from that domain.I believe I can use the cache.ini, but don't know the proper syntax ,for example.

172.131 ---->172.164
but surely I dont have to add all those #s in between

And if I use the rc5-domain it lumps them all together

 

[TwoFace]

cpars, are you talking about how you can have all those ranges appear as one in ppstats? Using Pinballs stripcache.pl script or something?

If that's the case... have you tried entering something like this in the cache.ini:

172.13,cpars_aol_friends.us
172.14,cpars_aol_friends.us
172.15,cpars_aol_friends.us
172.16,cpars_aol_friends.us

I'm not at all sure if that will work, but it's at least worth a shot if that's what you want to do... just keep those backups handy in case it doesn't work

Hope that helped some

With love and respect your fellow TA member

Two-FaceMy stats:
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[cpars]

TwoFace,

Thats fairly simialr to what I am doing now, which is fairly easy. except I have three guys updating from aol and with a different Ip every time they connect, i believe i can establish a general range in which they each are coming but thats alot of numbers to type in manually, but iof thats the only way ..well i guess thats what I will do.

Just seems like you should be able to use:

172.131-164,Joeblow or something similar

 

[Adul]

The script would have to be modified to support specific ranges of IP address.
Anyone care to takle this

 

[Russ]

cpars,

With AOL you're screwed. They're dynamic all the way back to the first octet in all regions of the country. You would need to constantly edit the script, adding the entire IP address every time someone flushes, and you'd soon end up with thousands of entries in the cacheini file.

Russ, NCNE

 

[cpars]

<< With AOL you're screwed >>



I think I have it close doing it manually in the rc5-dns, mine is small...only a few folks but them aol entries are a pain to keep up with.

 

[Russ]

cpars,

If you do it manually in rc5-dns.cache, keep in mind that the file updates itself periodically and, when it does, all of your work will be gone. The default setting is 30 days. Might be a good idea to change that to a much longer period.

Russ, NCNE

 

[cpars]

Ohhh, thanks Russ, I will change that and do a back up right quick too while I'm at it.