Re: [syslog-ng] valid HOSTNAME characters in syslog?

On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 11:50 -0700, dave wrote:

Thanks for the historical reasons.

I would like rephrase my question as below: If I were to implement a standard compliant Syslog Relay, do I need to treat '@' a valid character in the HOSTNAME field of syslog message to be relayed? For e.g.: Input syslog to Relay- <34>Jan 23 11:11:11 host@nm MSG Output from Relay - <34>Jan 23 11:11:11 host@nm MSG

i.e. The relay didn't insert new hostname/ipAddress while forwarding. Is this a standard compliant Syslog Relay behavior?

Hostname as defined by DNS may not contain '@'.

Is chaining of hostnames using '@' specific to SyslogNg?

yes. -- Bazsi