[syslog-ng]TCP Connection Dropouts

[Balazs Scheidler]

2004-05-17, h keltezéssel 06:05-kor Philip Webster ezt írta:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm wondering about the resilience of syslog-ng to TCP connection dropouts. 
> I've tested what happens when there is no connection available - syslog-ng 
> buffers the output and continues to write to local files, ie. it doesn't block.
> 
> But what happens if the TCP connection fails halfway through?  So, for 
> example, the three-way handshake has been completed, but there is no response 
> after the first data packet is sent because the remote host (or router, 
> switch, ISP ...) has stopped responding.  I can't really test this, so does 
> anyone know how syslog-ng handles it?

exactly the same, syslog-ng 1.6.x does never block. (or at least should
not), there's no flow control.

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