Hello Harry, Look at your /etc/host.conf file, it's most probably set up to look at the /etc/hosts file before the name servers. Regards, Sayan
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]>wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Harry Putnam > > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 6:01 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] How rsyslog derives hostname > > > > "Rainer Gerhards" <[email protected]> writes: > > > > >> He says rsyslog exclusively relies on what is returned by the os. > > Yes > > >> but by what mechanism? > > > > > > gethostname(), what according to the man page is the mechanism to use > > ;) > > > > > > > > http://git.adiscon.com/?p=rsyslog.git;a=blob;f=runtime/net.c;h=ab431f7c > > ddfda4 > > > 1b689e6ab4819b5ffe031e52fb;hb=HEAD#l1331 > > > > Looks pretty complicated... gack. > > > > Thanks... Apparently somewhere in the workings of gethostname() the > > /etc/hosts file is scanned. > > My (uneducated) guess is that this is distro/version specific. > > Raienr > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
