As almost everyone I think, I have a dynamic IP and it’s quite annoying to check our Piwik configuration to exclude our IP of the tracking of our website.
I’m using dyndns for other purposes, but I was wondering if it would be possible to use that kind of service to exclude automatically our IP from the tracking ?
It’s possible, but will incur a tracker performance hit.
While we already do a reverse lookup for the IP address in the Provider plugin (so it’s essentially “free”), this typically returns the ISP’s hostname.
And last I checked, dyndns.org’s nameservers don’t respond to the reverse lookup directly.
I wrote a summary of all “exclude traffic by hostname”- related posts over at Make Global list of Excluded IPs accept domains ?
in that post, there’s also a solution mentioned using a shell-script.
So maybe add new posts there.