Quoting der Mouse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 10:35:12PM
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> >> * Facility
> >> o A string, not a number!
> > Nope. Major redundant waste of disk space, network bandwith and line
> > width.
>
> Disk space and line width are presentation issues, and I'd note that
> currently facilities are in text form by the time theyhit the disk
> anyway, so this is making them no worse.
Well, so far I have not seen facilities logged at all.
> As for network bandwidth, if you want your facilities small, use "a",
> "b", "c", etc! Don't cripple the protocol with your site's
> constraints...please!
Not my sites constraints, but the constraints of many customers I deal
with. Using one letter facilities would again require to set up mapping for
something readable in rports. What is wrong with having a basic set of
facilities in /etc/facilities as part of the protocoll and lots of user
defined ones that can be added?
> > Can easily be reconstructed out of /etc/facilities.
>
> Not unless you can come up with some way to magically ensure
> /etc/facilities (or analog thereof) is in sync across all hosts
> involved. Indeed, I would argue that any sort of central registration
> of facility names - even per-machine, and a per-machine central
> registray is exactly what /etc/facilities is - is bad.
As I said above, have a basic set defined in the RFC and the rest is up to the
site.
> >> * Identifier for the originating system
> >> o DNS name, IP, whatever
> > IP only. DNS names are less reliable and resolving them takes time
> > that we might not have.
>
> But we might have it, too, and in some environments you want what the
> name was at the time, not what it may be by the time you get around to
> looking at it. "Make it configurable."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Agreed.
> I also note that using IP addresses restricts the protocol to use over
> IP, which would be a bad thing for that person who wanted to use serial
> lines to a logging strongbox machine.
Call it network ID or whatever. Use IP addresses (v4 and v6) as an example.
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