RE: [Syslog] Summary of the syslog/tls issues resolving

2006-04-20 Thread Balazs Scheidler
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 11:34 -0400, David B Harrington wrote: > Hi, > > I also have concerns about depending on DNS. > > I want to be sure I understand what you are suggesting as an > alternative. > Is the mapping from IP to hostname operator-defined in a static way? > > What happens, network-man

RE: [Syslog] Summary of the syslog/tls issues resolving

2006-04-20 Thread David B Harrington
Hi, I also have concerns about depending on DNS. I want to be sure I understand what you are suggesting as an alternative. Is the mapping from IP to hostname operator-defined in a static way? What happens, network-management-wise, when an IP address changes for a given host, or more importantly,

RE: [Syslog] Summary of the syslog/tls issues resolving

2006-04-20 Thread Balazs Scheidler
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 18:01 -0400, Anton Okmianski (aokmians) wrote: > Balazs: > > I don't think DNS lookup for validating clients will work in all cases. If > syslog clients are NAT'ed (and many CPEs are), it does not make sense for > them to have a hostname. You will not see the real source