Hi! I am using syslog-ng for my network appliance and came across a problem with unresolved destination hosts. But first of all I have to say that from all the syslog daemons I looked at, syslog-ng really stands out as the most versatile and flexible solution. So, thank you for this great piece of software! In my configuration it is possible to specify a number of remote syslog servers, to which my device forwards all log entries via TCP or UDP/514 in addition to logging everything to local files (/var/log/messages etc.). Now, when a customer enters an unresolvable hostname, syslog-ng does not start at all and therefore the whole system is without a syslog daemon. My current workaround is to try and resolve the configured hostnames myself and only write them to the generated syslog-ng.conf file when this succeeds, but I wonder if there is no configuration option or commandline switch that prevents syslog-ng from completely stopping to work when it cannot resolve a hostname. And, is this really the intended default behavior? On my system (and on almost every other system I assume), syslog-ng starts long before network connectivity is available in order to provide logging services during the boot sequence. I would have expected that, if one of the destinations cannot be resolved, syslog-ng starts without it and periodically tries to resolve it later. I did not find anything about this in the documentation (manpages of syslog-ng and syslog-ng.conf) or in the FAQ, the only thing I found was a bug in bugzilla (https://bugzilla.balabit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=63), which has been filed in 11/2009 and reports that --syntax-only does not catch unresolved _sources_ although this is considered a critical error and prevents syslog-ng from starting. I would assume that this is the same for unresolved destinations. Any comments on this? I know that ntpd tries to resolve configured servers in a separate thread which retries resolving them every once in a while and starts using such a host as soon as it could be resolved. Best Regards, Heiko