> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 4:10 AM > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Incorrect hostname from %hostname% > > doing a google search for 'all numeric hostname' I find lots of things > that break if you have an all numeric hostname, but a old RFC that > relaxes > the prior restriction that the first character of a hostname could not > be > a number. > > so it looks like they are technically legal according to the RFCs, but > they will break all over the place. > > given how rare an all-numeric hostname would be (and how much other > stuff > is broken by using one), I think it's reasonable for rsyslog to have a > heuristic that doesn't allow them and assums that a 4-digit number in > that > posisiton is the year portion of a timestamp. Especially since quite a > number of devices appear to be sending out logs with timestamps with > the > year added to them.
Makes sense. I'd still say that if an all-numeric string of size <> 4 occupies that position, I'd interpret it as hostname? Rainer _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards
