[Dnsmasq-discuss] log messages

[richardvoigt at gmail.com]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Tom Metro
<tmetro+dnsmasq at gmail.com<tmetro%2Bdnsmasq at gmail.com>
> wrote:

> Simon Kelley wrote:
>
>> ...dnsmasq-2.48test13  has some of your previous suggestions,
>>
>> Prefix each line with transaction-id
>>
>
> That seems to work fine. I see you got rid of the line that identifies the
> start of the transaction and the ID, which reflects the mock up I created.
> I'm just wondering whether it'll be easy enough to figure out what those
> bare numbers represent. The start of transaction line could address that,
> but adds another line to the output that isn't otherwise useful. It would be
> hard to add enough explanatory text to each individual line without making
> them too verbose. Perhaps a compromise might be sticking an arbitrary tag on
> the IDs, like TID1971352793, so at least there's something ("TID") to search
> on in the man page or FAQ.


"txn" would be usual for marking a transaction number.  TID appearing in a
log would tend to be confused with "thread ID".


>
>
>
>  Display option values as dotted-quad or text strings where appropriate.
>>
>
> Looks good.
>
>
>  Log client-provided hostname
>>
>
> This?
>
> 1101411385 client provides name: mythtv
>
> It might be better to specifically say "host name," so it isn't confused
> with client ID (which I'd eventually like to see logged as well).
>
> I noticed this line was absent if the client didn't send a host name. Given
> this is output only when extended logging is enabled, the user could
> probably benefit from knowing when the client has failed send a host name.
> (Likewise for client ID.)
>
>  -Tom
>
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