Re: syslogd host matches ip

2015-08-31 Thread Sebastien Marie
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 07:18:34PM +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote: > > I reconsidered it. It does not make sense to truncate the hostname > in the config at some character from a list. Just take whatever > the user specified as progname or hostname. > > ok? visual ok + slightly tested OK semari

Re: syslogd host matches ip

2015-08-30 Thread Alexander Bluhm
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 04:43:39PM +0200, Sebastien Marie wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 07:53:23PM +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 06:11:02PM +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote: > > > The +host feature allows to select log messages from a specific > > > host. Normally syslog

Re: syslogd host matches ip

2015-08-29 Thread Sebastien Marie
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 07:53:23PM +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 06:11:02PM +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote: > > The +host feature allows to select log messages from a specific > > host. Normally syslogd does a reverse lookup on the sender's > > address. If that fails or if

Re: syslogd host matches ip

2015-08-28 Thread Alexander Bluhm
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 06:11:02PM +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote: > The +host feature allows to select log messages from a specific > host. Normally syslogd does a reverse lookup on the sender's > address. If that fails or if syslogd has been started with the -n > option, the +host is matched with

syslogd host matches ip

2015-08-28 Thread Alexander Bluhm
Hi, The +host feature allows to select log messages from a specific host. Normally syslogd does a reverse lookup on the sender's address. If that fails or if syslogd has been started with the -n option, the +host is matched with the IP. Unfortunatelty IP addresses consist of characters that are