Re: How do I make syslogd not reverse lookup the FQDN

From: Shanon Swafford (shagnon_at_swafgfordfamily.com)
Date: 07/01/04 

Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 05:24:01 GMT

"Jos van Kan" <vankan@kabelfoon.nl> wrote in message news:40e2924a$0$865$58c7af7e@news.kabelfoon.nl...
> Shanon Swafford wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have a SuSE 9.0 system that I am using as a syslog server.
> >
> > I have syslogd starting with the -r option to listen for syslog messages
> > from clients.
> >
> > These clients could be all over the world with real long FQDNs so I would
> > just like the messages to show the originating IP instead of the long
> > FQDN.
> >
> > I've googled until I'm blue in the face but can't find any way to do this.
> >
> > I've tried:
> > /sbin/syslog -r -l *.net,*.com
> > but it did not make a difference from a client that got a ...net FQDN
> >
> > Can anybody help me?
> >
> > Is there some reason this would not be smart?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Shanon
>
> The man page specifies that you should use a colon (:) separator, not a
> comma. Maybe that makes a difference?
>
> Regards,
> --
> Jos van Kan, www.josvankan.tk

I tried:

/sbin/syslog -r -s *.net:*.com

And permutations of .net .com net com but nother seemed to work. And -l as well. But nothing changed.

Thanks again,

Shanon

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