25 Feb
2008
25 Feb
'08
11:25 a.m.
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 00:04 +0000, Ed Wildgoose wrote:
We recently moved one of our centralized syslog servers to a different building, resulting in a different network address. We took great pains (it was actually easy, but required planning) to maintain the IP name of the syslog server, but all of the sending hosts required a syslog-ng reload to resolve the IP name in the configuration file to the new IP address.
Standard procedure here is to setup the old machine to forward to the new machine (netfilter rules, etc). Then you can go around restarting your other servers at your leisure.
Works the same for any service - smtp, web, etc, etc
This sounds useful, so I'm going to implement it. -- Bazsi