[syslog-ng]$HOST gives IP address instead of hostname

William Yodlowsky <wyodlows@andromeda.rutgers.edu> wrote:

Hello,

I have syslog-ng configured with create_dirs(yes) and $HOST in several places, and I find that occasionally during a restart (HUP or stop/start) it will create some directories with the IP address of the machine instead of the resolved hostname. I have these options in use:

options { long_hostnames(off); keep_hostname(yes); use_dns(no); };

All systems that are sending logs to this machine have an entry in the /etc/hosts file locally, yet some end up with a logfile with this in it:

Aug 12 11:51:11 a.b.c.d syslog-ng version 1.5.13 going down Aug 12 11:51:11 a.b.c.d syslog-ng version 1.5.13 starting Aug 12 17:29:00 a.b.c.d syslog-ng version 1.5.13 going down Aug 12 17:29:03 a.b.c.d syslog-ng version 1.5.13 starting

a.b.c.d is in private address space.

I should note that this happened with 1.5.10 as well.

I haven't yet moved to 1.5.19 yet, but likely will soon. I'm running Solaris 8 sparc on both the clients and server.

Thanks in advance.

Oops - sorry about the subject line.