RemoteSyslogAppender doesn't work because of IPv6 -------------------------------------------------
Key: LOG4NET-261 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4NET-261 Project: Log4net Issue Type: Bug Components: Appenders Affects Versions: 1.2.10 Environment: Windows Seven x86_64 Visual Studio Team System unit test Reporter: Antonio Anzivino I tried to make experiments with Log4net and Syslog appender for a research open source project I'm working. Tried to send the log messages to a local UDP listener using RemoteSyslogAppender. Logging code executed but on the debug console I got an exception: log4net:ERROR [RemoteSyslogAppender] Unable to send logging event to remote syslog fe80::8038:6515:ad7a:bdb5%15 on port 3434. System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: Indirizzo utilizzato incompatibile con il protocollo richiesto [Address used is incompatible with required protocol] in System.Net.Sockets.Socket.SendTo(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags, EndPoint remoteEP) in System.Net.Sockets.UdpClient.Send(Byte[] dgram, Int32 bytes, IPEndPoint endPoint) in log4net.Appender.RemoteSyslogAppender.Append(LoggingEvent loggingEvent) ALL: 2010-07-06 23:24:11,364 [Agent: adapter run thread for test 'TestMethod' with id 'f3dfe8eb-635a-4683-8777-a029f3897071'] ERROR ALL [(null)] - Test error message RemoteSyslogAppender is trying to send the message to an IPv6 address rather than 127.0.0.1 Precisely, if I configure <remoteAddress> as "localhost", it tries to send to ::1, if I use "127.0.0.1" it tries to send to an IPv6 link-local address (fe80:...) Code can be found at https://logbus-ng.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/logbus-ng/trunk/logbus-core/Log4test/?pathrev=106 as a Visual Studio Unit Test. It is revision 106 of https://logbus-ng.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/logbus-ng/trunk/logbus-core/Log4test/ I tried to look at RemoteSyslogAppender implementation. I couldn't find a possible root cause because I can see you correctly initialize the UdpClient with parameterless constructor (UdpAppender::InitializeConnection()). The only way I could send datagrams was to use a FQDN as remoteAddress for which only A record is defined in the DNS. I also found that the RemoteSyslog appender doesn't respect RFC3164 by default unless you configure it with an appropriate pattern. I will open a new issue about it. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.