creating a webalizer dns cache file manually

shubb · 02-01-2007, 12:36 PM

Does anyone know how to manually create the Webalizer DNScache database file? I have an internal webserver, so all the IP addresses are 10.x addresses, therefore won't resolve to countries. I want to be able to manually add subnets to the dbcache file so I can resolve IPs to internal locations.

unSpawn · 02-02-2007, 07:20 AM

AFAIK you can't manually edit it. Here is an idea though. If Webazolver (Webalizer, DNS.README) honours /etc/nsswitch.conf you could change the resolving order to files then DNS and use static mappings in /etc/hosts. If you don't want to do that you could edit /etc/resolv.conf and use a local caching DNS like Pdnsd. Pdnsd not only has a persistent on-disk cache to help speed up queries, it can also change TTL values (Webalizers cache says 3 days max) and serve up mappings from it's own config and /etc/hosts-like files. Just an idea.

shubb · 02-02-2007, 02:12 PM

Ok, so the first problem I have is that I need to recompile webalizer with dns support. In order to do that, I need to install Berkeley DB with v1.85 support.

I configured Berkeley DB with the option: --enable-compat185, per the BerkeleyDB webpage.
It compiles correctly, and installs the libs in /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.5/lib

When I try to compile webalizer with DNS, I get the following:

Code:

./configure --enable-dns --with-db=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.5/lib/

loading cache ./config.cache
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/ginstall -c
checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E
checking whether char is unsigned... (cached) no
checking for dbopen... (cached) no
checking for library containing dbopen... (cached) no
configure: warning: You must have a V1.85 compatable DB library!
configure: warning: DNS lookup code will be disabled...
checking for socket... (cached) yes
checking for sys/socket.h... (cached) yes
checking for main in -lnsl... (cached) yes
checking for main in -l44bsd... (cached) no
checking for main in -lm... (cached) yes
checking for main in -lz... (cached) yes
checking for gzrewind in -lz... (cached) yes
checking for main in -lpng... (cached) yes
checking for gdImagePng in -lgd... (cached) yes
checking for gd.h... (cached) /usr/local/include
checking for getopt.h... (cached) yes
checking for math.h... (cached) yes
checking default config dir... (cached) /etc
checking for language file... (cached) yes - english
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
linking ./lang/webalizer_lang.english to webalizer_lang.h

Did I miss something?

unSpawn · 02-02-2007, 04:18 PM

Ok, so the first problem I have is that I need to recompile webalizer with dns support.
...or just D/L the static binary and make a symlink from webalizer to webazolver.