[syslog-ng] how rewrite the HOST macro?

[mobidyc]

2007/8/12, K K <kkadow at xxx.com>:
>There is one way -- you can override them locally on the server
>runnign syslog-ng, so your log server believes the reverse DNS for all
>those aliases all actually resolve to "server0".

>You can do this with /etc/hosts if your resolver will check /etc/hosts
>for reverse DNS (e.g. with a flag in /etc/resolv.conf, but the exact
>mechanism is OS-dependent).

i will lost all the dynamic part with it but it's a solution.

>Sounds like it would be easier to hack the syslog-ng source code to
>find where it translates IP addresses to names, and just add code to
>check if the last two characters are 'e' followed by a number, and if
>so, truncate.

i think it would be the best solution, i've really few knowledge in C but
i'm going to try.

thanks for you help ;)
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Mobidyc
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