RE: [Syslog] Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-syslog-protocol (The syslogProtocol) to Proposed Standard

2007-02-14 Thread Rainer Gerhards
Mark == Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Similarly if syslogd is using a reliable transport to talk to another syslogd. That too can block which will eventualy lead to blockages to applications / memory exhaustion. *That* is a different beast, not

Re: draft-ietf-syslog-protocol: Reliabledeliveryconsidered harmful.

2007-02-08 Thread Rainer Gerhards
I agree with Tom that the draft - at least IMHO - does not promote or strongly encourage reliable logging. I also agree with the observation that reliable - and blocking - logging can cause harm to a system. However, I do not think that this is anything that the protocol can do something

RE: [Syslog] Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-syslog-protocol (The syslogProtocol) to Proposed Standard

2007-02-01 Thread Rainer Gerhards
I am thinking on how to come this by on the protocol basis, but so far I have no good clue (except that Baszi is probably right and it is a purely operational issue). However, I know some problems in this relation and though it is not a deadlock issue, I would like to share the scenario for sake