[syslog-ng] Problem with hostnames!

Ken Garland ken.garland at rotech.com
Wed Jul 13 22:00:19 CEST 2005


paste the relevant parts of your .conf file.

mrgenius wrote:

>
> Hi All!
>  
> I am using Syslog-ng with php-syslog-ng. to give names of my choices
> to different hosts IP what i did was to define hostnames against each
> IP of host in /etc/hosts file.
>  
> It was working fine with Public IP adresses.. But I have some hosts on
> local network too with 192.168 IPs . The pRoblem i am now facing is
> that its not storing logs with HOSTNAMES of private IPs. Where as its
> working fine and giving names of Public IPs.
>  
> For example In My /etc/hosts file i have these 2 entries
>  
> 202.164.1.1 <http://202.164.1.1>         broadband-router  
> 192.168.77.1 <http://192.168.77.1>       primary-router
>  
> For 1st entry Logs in database will come with name broadband-router,
> which is what i want
> For 2nd Entry Logs in database will come with name 192.168.77.1
> <http://192.168.77.1>, which is what i Don't want
>  
>  
> Any body has any idea?? any thing to do in configuration of syslog-ng??
>  
> Regards,
>  
> -Geni
>
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