[syslog-ng] Enable TLS encryption

[Sathish Sundaravel]

Hi Peter

Thanks for your prompt response. I have also come across that TLS works for
TCP. I tried configuring with syslog () function but does not help either.

Thanks for confirming it

Regards
Sathish

On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 at 9:36 PM, Peter Eckel <lists at eckel-edv.de> wrote:

> Hi Sathish,
>
> you want to pass UDP traffic through TLS? That doesn't work out of the
> box. TLS implies TCP.
>
> TLS encryption for UDP isn't possible. AFAIK Syslog NG does not support
> DTLS, but you'd need clients that support it as well anyway on the other
> end, and that's highly unlikely.
>
> You can set up a Syslog NG gateway near the UDP-only logging clients that
> forwards the messages sent over UDP via TCP/TLS, however. Whether that
> makes sense depends on your use case.
>
> Best regards,
>
>   Peter.
>
>
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