[syslog-ng] Full hostname available when tunnelling through stunnel?

catenate infosec at gmail.com
Tue Nov 22 18:26:43 CET 2005


On 11/22/05, Alexi Papaleonardos <alexi.papaleonardos at hypermediasystems.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi folks.
>
> We have some of our more important hosts reporting our central syslog-ng
> servers via stunnel. The downside seems to be that only the first
> "word" (unqualified) of the hostname makes its way to the loghost.
> Because of an well-intentioned but annoying host naming policy, we have
> a number of hosts named things like web002.abc and web002.xyz. It would
> seem that this causes log files to become intermingled.


See http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html#hostname - you need to set the
option "chain_hostname(no)" and you should be fine using the full hostname.
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