[syslog-ng] Host sending "localhost" as hostname

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 09:04 +0200, Andreas Heinlein wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we have a setup with Syslog-Ng 3.2 on both a debian server and Ubuntu
> clients. For several reasons, we set keep_hostnames(yes) on the log
> server, which works quite well. Except for some clients (3 or 4) which
> insist on sending "localhost" as their hostname. They do resolve
> perfectly via DNS in both directions, "hostname" on these clients
> outputs the correct hostname.
> 
> I have no idea where this comes from. Configuration is identical on all
> machines, so I don't understand why it works on most but not all of them.

This is probably because of those hosts have localhost in
their /etc/hosts file _before_ their actual hostname.



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Bazsi