[syslog-ng]cisco host not being resolved

[Badat, Qassim, ALABS]

Nothing to do with syslog-ng.  It's the DNS, there should exist both the
A -record and the PTR for the host.  That is you should be able to
resolve NAME-to-IP and also IP-to-NAME.   =20

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From: syslog-ng-admin@lists.balabit.hu
[mailto:syslog-ng-admin@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Asif Iqbal
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 5:34 PM
To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng]cisco host not being resolved

Badat, Qassim, ALABS wrote:
> I resolved it, the problem was due to DNS and missing reverse entries
> for these hosts.  Guess what, it was the logs in the syslog-ng that
led
> to its own resolution !!!

Would you care to share the diff of the not working and working
syslog.conf? I am having the same problem

Thanks

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> From: syslog-ng-admin@lists.balabit.hu
> [mailto:syslog-ng-admin@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Badat, Qassim,
> ALABS
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 11:58 AM
> To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
> Subject: [syslog-ng]cisco host not being resolved
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> Hi,
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> I am new to syslog-ng so excuse my ignorance.  I have installed
> syslog-ng 1.6.2 on Solaris 8.  I am getting the logs but the host
names
> are not being resolved.  .  Strangely logs from another vendor's does
> have the names resolved by syslog-ng.  Any idea whats causing the
> problem for cisco ?
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> My syslog-ng.conf file:
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> options { long_hostnames(off); sync(0); };
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> source sys { sun-streams ("/dev/log" door("/etc/.syslog_door"));
> internal(); };
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> source net { udp(); };
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> destination network { file("/var/log/syslog-ng"); };
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> log { source(net); destination(network); };
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> log { source(sys); destination(network); };
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> Regards,
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> QB
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Asif Iqbal
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