Re: Syslog query - I'm probably doing something stoopid
From: Chopper (no.spam@for.me)Date: 05/21/02
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From: Chopper <no.spam@for.me> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 00:32:25 GMT
Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net> wrote in
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> In article <Xns921465CA2CCE6nospamforme@203.50.2.86>,
> Chopper <no.spam@for.me> wrote:
>>Well g'day!
>>
>>I'm in the process of setting syslog up to remotely log to a FreeBSD
>>box from 3 AIX boxes. is that a normal thing to do? Anyway, got it
>>working EXCEPT the central log host (ie the FreeBSD box) lags behind.
>>It's own syslog messages are fine - they are logging AS they happen -
>>it's the ones from the AIX boxes. they end up HOURS behind - after
>>only a couple of days.
>
> Is reverse DNS set up properly for the AIX boxes? syslogd tries to
> put the sender's hostname in the log message, so it has to perform a
> reverse DNS lookup for every message it receives. If reverse DNS
> delegation is not correct, it may take a while for these to time out,
> which will cause syslogd to fall behind pretty quickly.
>
BARRY. MATE! You're a GENIUS!
Apparently we've got all that DNS stuff turned off on our AIX hosts. So I
just added the AIX hosts to the hosts file on the FreeBSD box, and WHAMMO -
like a bought one!
Fantastic.
Chop
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