[syslog-ng]syslog-ng stopped working yesterday

Gorm J. Siiger syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:30:31 +0100


> 
> syslog-ng probably blocks on something, maybe on a DNS query. can you
> strace syslog-ng while it is blocked like this?
> 

I found the problem, the reverse dns zone for one particular host was
classless delegated, and that name-server was configured wrong.

Pretty interesting that syslog-ng fails that bad when dns doesn't work.

Once the problem was fixed everything went back to normal.


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