[syslog-ng] logging by hostname

[Nate Campi]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 01:47:58PM +0200, Istvan Szukacs wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I would like to log several computer which are behind nat. The problem 
> is i cannot find the right metod to log by the hostname not by the ip 
> reverse name from where the packets come.
> 
> But i got this:
> 
> Oct  1 02:34:27 external ip/external ip
> 
> Is there a possibility to devide the logs by the original hostname?

Most syslog implementations don't send the hostname in the syslog
message over the network. 

 http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/syslog.html#problems

If you have syslog-ng on the clients behind the NAT gateway, set
keep_hostname(yes) on the central syslog server.

 http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html#hostname

-- 
Nate

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