[rsyslog] Wrongly formatted messages from kernel/netconsole

[RB]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 06:38, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
> You are correct, that is exactly what we do. However with rsyslog v2.0.6
> it seems there is no %FROMHOST-IP% and the %FROMHOST% property only
> contains the IP address. Maybe there is something else I need to do to get
> the short hostname from DNS, rather than an IP on rsyslog v2 ?

This usually has more to do with the host's DNS configuration than the
syslog daemon - I've not looked at the 2.x code (ever), but if your
host is configured with a resolver that will perform reverse lookups
of the IPs and with an appropriate domain search list, you should be
able to get the short hostnames.  That can be shortcut by placing
entries in /etc/hosts, but that obviously doesn't scale very well.