Summary 2: syslogd question

From: Skulley, William <William.Skulley_at_rfets.gov>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 07:22:35 -0600

Many thanks to Nikola Milutinovic who sent me the following:

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This is due to reverse name lookup. If you are using /etc/hosts it is there,
but if you're usning DNS, then you have two zones: direct and reverse. Well,
your mistery host is probably missing from the reverse map.
Nix.
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And it certainly was.  Added the PTR and now it works fine.
Thanks to all again
Bill Skulley
DynCorp I&ET
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Skulley, William [SMTP:William.Skulley_at_rfets.gov]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:45 AM
> > To:	tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov
> > Subject:	syslogd question
> > 
> > Greetings all.  I have a small head-scratcher (for me anyway)...
> > 
> > I have set up entries in the syslog.conf files on our servers so that I
> > get
> > important system information for all our servers at my workstation:
> > 
> > daemon.debug		_at_myworkstation.rfets.gov
> > etc...
> > 
> > For most of my servers, this gets me an entry similar to the following:
> > 
> > Jun 19 14:18:55 servername.rfets.gov syslogd: restart
> > 
> > Except for one server, which gives me the IP address:
> > 
> > Jun 19 12:28:25 [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.2.2] syslogd: restart
> > 
> > The system in question is a Tru64 5.1 box, and name resolution appears
> to
> > work in all directions - my workstation knows that system by name, that
> > system knows my workstation by name, etc etc.  What am I missing to have
> > the
> > entry at my workstation (Solaris 2.6, btw) be by name instead of IP?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Bill Skulley
> > DynCorp I&ET

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