[syslog-ng]Real time .conf?

[Balazs Scheidler]

> Thanks for your help.  After strace-ing I found that the culprit was DNS.
> DNS lookups were blocking the daemon.
> 
> Adding use_dns(no) to the global config fixed the problem.  Messages are now
> being written to disk in real time and I am losing nothing!
> 
> Now, if I want my 'pretty' directory structure and filenames do I add my
> remote machines to /etc/hosts or do I make my syslog-ng machine a caching
> name server?  Will these block?

a caching nameserver should help, though syslog-ng can still block for a
while on DNS queries. you could filter out hosts that might not be
resolvable with ipchains or ipfwadm (or the packet filter your OS has)

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