general/5060: User track generates flawed records.

[Sefera Armond <se...@hotmail.com>]

>Number:         5060
>Category:       general
>Synopsis:       User track generates flawed records.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Sep 23 02:40:00 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     sefer@hotmail.com
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.3.6
>Environment:
dec/alpha - ofs1 v4.0, compiler gcc.
>Description:
We have enabled the user-track module using cookies. And since we have made this change, the logs generated by the apache began showing invalid entries in roughly 8% of the log entries.
Instead of showing "210.80.20.55.374637468346" we get only "-" or sometimes "378463478463" in around 8% of the entries. We couldn't figure out why this is happenning and assumed (since we couldn't find anything explaining this) that this must be some kind of a bug.
We get high amount of pageviews a day, so this may not be noticeable on a lower number of pageviews.
If you can explain/solve/bug-fix this we'll be extermly glad.
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