[syslog-ng] Reverse DNS

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 11:55 +0000, Jesper Markenstam wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I am sure this topic has been beaten to death, but I cannot find
> answers anywhere. Apologies if I have missed something - here we go:
>  
> I run syslog-ng 1.6.4 on Sol 9 Sparc (sunfreeware distribution). It
> works fine, except I want syslog-ng to resolve IP's to hostnames, and
> create directories using the resolved name rather than IP (long
> term, I will look at MySQL, but I would still have to get either DNS
> or keep_hostname to work). I installed bind 9.2.3 on the log
> server and setup a reverse zone authoritative for in-addr.arpa., but
> it still doesn't work. At this time, I prefer to use reverse DNS
> rather than hostname. I was not able to create_dirs based on
> keep_hostname(yes) either.

You have probably run into this:

        * Fixed a 64 bit compatibility issue when resolving hostnames.

Which was fixed in 1.6.8

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Bazsi