Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:26:44 +0100 From: Guido Demmenie <rottweilertje@rottnic.nl> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: remote logging with syslogd Message-ID: <C96C12CA-426B-4FAB-86D1-D6B0A909EDDF@rottnic.nl> In-Reply-To: <226ae0c60703230654r5643fca6m58849554010052c6@mail.gmail.com> References: <226ae0c60703220745x6764d58du4798c3e25d65d5cd@mail.gmail.com> <E003A2D3-BD3F-4086-8D21-60342EA443B8@rottnic.nl> <226ae0c60703230654r5643fca6m58849554010052c6@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mar 23, 2007, at 2:54 PM, David Robillard wrote: >> Thnx for the tip. Found out that it was not the airport UDP port. >> It is >> some misconfiguration in my DNS, but still don't get why it >> doesn't work >> as expected. For some reason my DNS-name is snipped just before >> the TLD. >> >> Oh btw i changed some configs >> >> I prepended to /etc/syslog.conf the next and deleted what I wrote >> above >> # Log remote Airport Express >> +airport.intranet.mydomain.org >> *.* /var/log/airport.log >> +* >> !* >> >> And in rc.conf I changed the above to: >> syslogd_enable="YES" >> syslogd_flags="-b myhostname.intranet.mydomain.org -a >> airport.intranet.mydomain.org" >> >> So what comes in on syslogd looks like "airport.intranet.mydomain" >> so no >> .org or something. I really don't get where that comes from. But now >> syslogd rejects because of "name mismatch". > > If you're having DNS problems, you can always check if your rc.conf(5) > and syslog.conf(5) configurations are good by using IP addresses. > Don't forget to restart syslogd(8) of course. That will help you find > out if your configurations are good. Well with my latest changes it kind of works, doesn't look very pretty, because I now use no TLD in my rc.conf(5), so no .org only the airport.intranet.mydomain. And well it is okay like that. > Now that should not prevent you from fixing your DNS :) At the moment no time, but I sure must get deeper into the Bind manual book ;) --Guido www.rottnic.nl
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