Re: Syslog server not resolving host names of logged machines

2001-03-29 Thread roy
Case closed Anthony... I tried to put it into debug mode and it told me that debug mode was disabled because of I can't remember what. I restarted syslogd and it started working fine. I'd HUPed it before, but not a total take down and restart Thanks for your help.. it was greatly appreciated.

Re: Syslog server not resolving host names of logged machines

2001-03-29 Thread roy
This is RH7. It had been working fine and then something changed a few days ago. My logs don't indicate a syslogd restart or anything, yet I can see exactly where I was logging FQDN's and then blamo, nuttin but IP's. Are there any special ports that have to be opened or services running for th

Re: Syslog server not resolving host names of logged machines

2001-03-29 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 11:52:28 Roy wrote: >I put the records in the hosts file but still no good. If I do an nslookup >on these ip's it works fine (even before I put them in the hosts file). The > >must be something in syslogd that does the lookup but it stopped doing it >and I can't find anything

Re: Syslog server not resolving host names of logged machines

2001-03-29 Thread Roy
At 09:13 PM 3/28/01 -0500, you wrote: >On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 10:00:44 Roy wrote: > >At 07:27 PM 3/27/01 -0500, you wrote: > >>The simplest thing to do is ad the remote devices to the server's hosts > >>file. > > > >That kind of defeats the purpose of DNS . Thanks for the thought though. > >In genera

Re: Syslog server not resolving host names of logged machines

2001-03-28 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 10:00:44 Roy wrote: >At 07:27 PM 3/27/01 -0500, you wrote: >>The simplest thing to do is ad the remote devices to the server's hosts >>file. > >That kind of defeats the purpose of DNS . Thanks for the thought though. In general, yes, but in this case it just reduces the time n

Re: Syslog server not resolving host names of logged machines

2001-03-28 Thread Roy
Oh yeah I am in a very volatile environment so changing the host file contra DNS isn't cool at all. Roy At 07:00 AM 3/28/01 -0800, you wrote: >At 07:27 PM 3/27/01 -0500, you wrote: >>On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:12:28 Roy wrote: >> >I have a central logserver that has sun, linux and cisco logging to

Re: Syslog server not resolving host names of logged machines

2001-03-28 Thread Roy
At 07:27 PM 3/27/01 -0500, you wrote: >On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:12:28 Roy wrote: > >I have a central logserver that has sun, linux and cisco logging to it. At > >one time I was getting my logs with the originating machines fully > >qualified names. Now I'm just getting the IP addresses. I'm assuming

Re: Syslog server not resolving host names of logged machines

2001-03-27 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:12:28 Roy wrote: >I have a central logserver that has sun, linux and cisco logging to it. At >one time I was getting my logs with the originating machines fully >qualified names. Now I'm just getting the IP addresses. I'm assuming >"something" changed on my linux log serv

Syslog server not resolving host names of logged machines

2001-03-27 Thread Roy
I have a central logserver that has sun, linux and cisco logging to it. At one time I was getting my logs with the originating machines fully qualified names. Now I'm just getting the IP addresses. I'm assuming "something" changed on my linux log server , but of course I didn't change anything