Additional Feature Suggestion

mikemc · New Member Joined: Dec 14, 2007 Posts: 12

This suggestion comes from my experience with the old "IP Tracking Info" module.......

When viewing the "Display Tracked IP's" pages in NS (or anywhere else in NS an IP is displayed), I'd like to see a hover-over pop-up showing the RDNS for the IP in question. This goes a long way in quickly determining whether the IP is a legitimate visitor, robot, or service which is visiting. And it saves huge amounts of time by not causing me to dig deeper, only to find it's a known search engine or something safe/similar. I imagine this would require the addition of the RDNS checks, additional DB table, and the code to generate the pop-up, but fairly straight forward.

Also an easy way to determine the referrer and agent used by an IP..... perhaps in the same pop-up?

Raven · Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 11:39 pm

The main issue with rdns is the overhead. I will put this down and when I can get to it I will try to do some overhead analysis. Thanks!