Hi Rainer It's not that I don't want to upgrade. I would love to upgrade, but I'm restricted to what RHN has to offer on the RHEL 5.x channel :-(
My next step is indeed to offer to put a caching server locally... Thanx Paolo On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]> wrote: >> It was brought to my attention that our centralized syslog server >> (running rsyslog 3.22.1) is creating a lot of DNS queries toward one >> of our DNS servers (the first one listed in /etc/resolv.conf). From a >> first look at the amount of queries generated it seems that for every >> message received rsyslog creates a DNS query. Is my assumption >> correct? > > yes >> >> I'm only trying to get confirmation for my first (on the quick) >> assumption. Not (yet) how to change (i.e. reduce) the situation. > > If you do not want to upgrade to a current version, folks have solved this > with caching resolvers. > > Rainer > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of > sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T > LIKE THAT. _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.

