-Hmm.. I think syslog ng internal calls DNS but doesn’t look at the hosts file

I didn’t actually look this up – so ymmv

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From: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of mrgenius
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 3:49 PM
To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Subject: [syslog-ng] Problem with hostnames!

Hi All!

I am using Syslog-ng with php-syslog-ng. to give names of my choices to different hosts IP what i did was to define hostnames against each IP of host in /etc/hosts file.

It was working fine with Public IP adresses.. But I have some hosts on local network too with 192.168 IPs . The pRoblem i am now facing is that its not storing logs with HOSTNAMES of private IPs. Where as its working fine and giving names of Public IPs.

For example In My /etc/hosts file i have these 2 entries

202.164.1.1         broadband-router  

192.168.77.1       primary-router

For 1st entry Logs in database will come with name broadband-router, which is what i want

For 2nd Entry Logs in database will come with name 192.168.77.1, which is what i Don't want

Any body has any idea?? any thing to do in configuration of syslog-ng??

Regards,

-Geni