Greetings everyone,

  I hope that someone can point me in the right direction to solve this problem that I am having. I am currently developing a very extensive Intranet for the company that I work for and one of the functional requirements is that everytime any user access's any part of the Intranet from any workstation, the Users ID#, resource they requested, IP Address, and the machine they used to access the resource must be logged to a SQL Database.



Here is the problem that I have come across. While on the companies internal network this works flawlessly, however, I took a day away from the office to work at home; I connected to the internal network via VPN and tried accessing the intranet. And I was presented with this error:



System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: The requested name is valid and was found in the database, but it does not have the correct associated data being resolved for

This error is thrown from this line of code:

strHost = System.Net.Dns.GetHostByAddress(Request.ServerVari ables("Remote_Host"))

Normally this might not be a big deal, however, we have about a dozen employees that connect to our network remotely. While I could place this statement in a TRY CATCH block and then use a generic name for the host name when the exception is raised, is there another way to do this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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Isn't just about all of this available in the IIS logs?

-Peter

Quite true, however, for each resource there is also an administrative Access Log page assoicated with it that can be called up to see who has accessed X resource. While the IIS Log will contain the information that I need I have no way to relate the data if I were to parse the file. Let me explain. I utilize a "Tree Style" menu system for the Intranet Navigation, this menu is built dynmaically from a database table that can be edited via an Administration tool. Each page has an associated Page ID so when a user requests X page, when I write to the Access Log I pull the page description from the Menu table.

The IIS log can tell me the pages that are requested but if I wanted to parse the IIS Log into the Access Log I would have to still make a call back to the menu table, compare the page that was called to the all of the pages in menu table to get the approprivate Page description.

If you are from the State's you have at least heard about the HIPPA Regulation, and because I work for a healthcare provider, we have to be very particular in the data that we gather because we must know who is accessing what client information and why.

If it come's down to it, yes I can parse the IIS logs, however would like to use this only
as a last resort.


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