#23243: write a spec for web-server-access log descriptors
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Reporter: iwakeh | Owner: metrics-team
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: Medium | Milestone:
Component: Metrics/Metrics website | Version:
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by iwakeh):
Replying to [comment:17 karsten]:
> Replying to [comment:14 iwakeh]:
> > Another addition:
> >
> > Even though Tor's Apache webservers are configured to only provide
three ip addresses (e.g. `0.0.0.{0,1,2}`) all lines with different ips are
accepted and sanitized to ip `0.0.0.0`.
> >
> > Or, should such lines be discarded?
>
> Right now addresses are kept as long as they start with `0.0.0.`, which
seems plausible to me. The spec draft should also say that.
Agreed. My question was a different one: what about log lines that
contain other ips (e.g. in case Apache suddenly logs more 11.22.33.44).
Currently these would be replaced by 0.0.0.0 and the sanitized lines kept.
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