[syslog-ng] [Bug 19] New: syslog-ng 2.0. x can not follow a change of IP at target syslog server

[Ed Wildgoose]

> We recently moved one of our centralized syslog servers to a different building, resulting in a different network address.
> We took great pains (it was actually easy, but required planning) to maintain the IP name of the syslog server, but
> all of the sending hosts required a syslog-ng reload to resolve the IP name in the configuration file
> to the new IP address.
>   

Standard procedure here is to setup the old machine to forward to the 
new machine (netfilter rules, etc).  Then you can go around restarting 
your other servers at your leisure.

Works the same for any service - smtp, web, etc, etc

Ed