[syslog-ng]fully qualified hostname help

[Allen Bettilyon]

Yes, it can use dns.  I was just asking if you ALSO had the hosts listed in your /etc/hosts file.  If you did, than it would ask that first.

I actually relay about 80 boxes to my loghost, and I prefer having them all listed in /etc/hosts.  This way, if dns falls down, my logs still retain hostnames.

I think the option your looking for is:

            use_fqdn (yes);


-- Allen


"Dawson, Kevin" wrote:

> Ugh...no.  Can't it use DNS to resolve?  I had use_dns(yes) set but itss
> didn't work either.  The number of hosts I'd have to add to /etc/hosts would
> be significant as we are relaying from *a bunch* of boxes to a central
> collection point.
>
> Kevin.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen Bettilyon [mailto:allen@about-inc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 3:20 PM
> To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng]fully qualified hostname help
>
> Do you have the hosts listed in /etc/hosts?
>
> -- Allen
>
> "Dawson, Kevin" wrote:
>
> > I'm sure this has been asked a thousand times before (although I couldn't
> > find it in the archives), but here it goes.  My options line reads:
> >
> > options { sync(0); time_reopen(10); log_fifo_size(100);
> long_hostnames(yes);
> > chain_hostnames(yes); };
> >
> > I'm running version 1.4.12 on Solaris and the problem is my messages are
> > still listing the short hostname.  Any thoughts on this?
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Kevin.
> >
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