Msg from Joerg Sommer: Hi,
How dangerous is that? Is the full service locked until the timeout occures? Is the ip marked as bad. And when will the "keep_hostname" buffer updated?
Relying on another service is always dangerous :) The syslog-ng's we run don't seem to be threaded, so I guess there is no way they would not block on DNS lookups? I don't think the IP is marked as bad, since that could affect logging behaviour in another way you might not desi- re when DNS goes down. I'm not sure though. I don't understand the last question, since keep_hostname is somewhat unrelated to DNS? If you're about to rely on *anything* to feed information to your audit trails, better make sure it's secure and it doesn't fail at all. Otherwise, don't. syslog-ng runs beautifully without anything else, and it's really cheap to implement DNS lookups in log reporting programs.
* When will encryption and authentication come?
in syslog-ng 2
..and when will this released?
Are you seriously asking about a timeline for an open source project? Probably when somebody writes the functionality, want to volunteer? ;) As for your complaints about the documentation, have you come across the FAQ at http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html yet? Greetings, Gregor.