<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I've finally got around and checked this out. Here's what I've found:</div><div><br></div><div>* the message does not contain a hostname<br></div><div>* if I am receiving this using a normal udp() source, I can reproduce that HOST becomes ':'</div><div>* if I am using flags(no-parse) on input and the new cisco-parser() to actually decompose the message, it correctly parses it and HOST becomes the DNS resolved variant of the sender IP address.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll check what 3.5 did in this scenario.<br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">-- <br>Bazsi<br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 11:27 PM, Clayton Dukes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cdukes@logzilla.net" target="_blank">cdukes@logzilla.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<b>Subject: </b>Re: Fwd: [syslog-ng] hostname not appearing correctly when receiving logs from switches<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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Date: Mon, May 7, 2018 at 4:46 PM<br>
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] hostname not appearing correctly when receiving logs from switches<br>
To: "Scheidler, Balázs" <<a href="mailto:balazs.scheidler@balabit.com" target="_blank">balazs.scheidler@balabit.com</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Balazs,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sorry for the delay, I don’t get a lot of free time these days :)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have attached a pcap as well as a raw log. The log is prior to any manipulation of LogZilla rules, etc.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is easily reproduceable.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The problem, of course, is that we can’t tell all of our customers to re-configure all of their cisco devices.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We have documented the work-around here (search the page for “hostname missing”):<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This problem never existed before, but I am not certain which syslog-ng version it started occurring in.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, May 1, 2018 at 8:45 PM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Interesting that I saw this message the first time in your response, and not the original one.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I can easily recreate the issue.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Subject: </b>[Suspected Spam] [syslog-ng] hostname not appearing correctly when receiving logs from switches</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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from our switches contains IP/host showing as ":" (colons). I copied the current working custom build .conf from another syslog server into our new server. Can someone help me figure out what I am missing? It is working for some components but not for switches.
I tested the same switch by sending syslog to another syslog server and the hostname is appearing but just not appearing on the new syslog server. The only difference between the two server is that one uses v3.5 (the working one) and the other uses syslog-ng
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