[syslog-ng] Strange ... IP Address instead of the machine name ....

[Bill Nash]

Check the reverse DNS entries for those IPs. I can't tell from your email 
if you're talking about just A records when you say there's no DNS for 
those hosts or not, but it's possible that you've got stale entries 
floating around.

Another possibility is the hostname chaining option in syslog-ng's config, 
passing them along from the clients.

- billn

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, fredzy padzy wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm centralizing the logs of ten servers in on central one, thanks to
> syslog-ng, and some syslogd on the servers (which are different OS, like
> AIX, Solaris, HP UX ...).
>
> I use php-syslog as a web interface, and it works great =)
>
> But i've noticed that my php-syslog has got one problem :
>
> In the 'server' comboBox, i can see some IP address and just a few name,
> which aren't DNS ones.
>
> I'm not sure where my central server has found thoses names ( maybe in the
> packets send by the clients) but i've checked the file /etc/hosts of this
> central server.
>
> I've written down there the ip addresses (of the comboBox) followed by a
> 'tab' and then, the name that i want to be displayed ....
>
> But nothing to do ... i desn't work like that.
>
> So maybe someone can help me :)
>
> thanks a lot :=)
>