Can you retry with v4? That should be much cleaner now, maybe relp does
not yet provide the resolved info (that is a protocol transport driver
[lib] issue).

Rainer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Patrick Shen
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 8:00 AM
> To: rsyslog-users
> Subject: [rsyslog] Weird fromhost property value
> 
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> Hi All,
> 
> I've utilized rsyslog as my company's central logging server for half
a
> year.
> 
> Today I encounterd a very weird issue about value of fromhost
property.
> We use dynamic templates to store logs from clients.
> 
> The template is like below:
> 
> $template
>
d_hosts,"/var/rsyslog/HOSTS/%fromhost%/%$year%/%$month%/%syslogfacility
> -text%_%fromhost%_%$year%_%$month%_%$day
> %.log"
> 
> You can see we group logs by fromhost value.
> 
> Today, I did 3 times test that a client named (sobek) sent logs to
> central logging server by UDP, TCP and RELP.
> 
> The FQDN of client node is "sobek.net-m.internal", short name is
> "sobek", ip address is "172.21.101.13".
> 
> After testing, I got when sending via UDP, the fromhost value is short
> name. And via TCP, the value is FQDN. Via RELP, the value is IP
> address.
> 
> So I got a very weird directory organization at "/var/rsyslog/HOSTS".
> 
>
#######################################################################
> ###
> drwxr-x--- 3 root syslog 80 Feb 27 07:24 172.21.101.13         <- RELP
> drwxr-x--- 3 root syslog 80 Feb 27 05:58 sobek                 <- UDP
> drwxr-x--- 3 root syslog 80 Feb 27 06:03 sobek.net-m.internal  <- TCP
>
#######################################################################
> ###
> 
> We are running rsyslog 3.20.0 both on client and server. So I wanna
> know
> if any other has encountered this before?
> 
> Thanks,
> Patrick
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