[rsyslog] No DNS resolution for the property '$fromhost', it's the local host.

[Rainer Gerhards]

the currently released version of librelp simply does not provide that
information. However, I have a version 1.0 available, which does. I'll see
that I manage to release it today. You need to use a recent version of
rsyslog to use the new librelp 1.0 functionality.

Rainer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rsyslog-bounces at lists.adiscon.com [mailto:rsyslog-
> bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Lynch
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:58 AM
> To: rsyslog at lists.adiscon.com
> Subject: [rsyslog] No DNS resolution for the property '$fromhost',it's
> the local host.
> 
> I've configured syslog forwarding via RELP, and it's mostly working
> properly. The only problem is that DNS resolution doesn't seem to be
> enabled for the '$fromhost' property, if the log message is coming
> from a remote machine via RELP. If the log destination is local, it
> works fine: $fromhost resolves to the simple (no FQDN) hostname, as
> does $hostname. But if the log destination is a remote machine via
> RELP, I '$fromhost' doesn't resolves to a hostname, it's always an IP
> address.
> 
> I found a  similar issue on the forum, here:
> 
>  * http://kb.monitorware.com/reverse-dns-resolution-why-t10040.html
> 
> Like that poster, my forward and reverse DNS lookups work just fine,
> on all of the hosts involved.
> 
> Is this a known limitation of RELP, or remote destinations in general,
> or should I file a bug report?
> 
> -Ryan
> 
> Ryan B. Lynch
> ryan.b.lynch at gmail.com
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