> However, as things stand interpretation can be broken with the base > tools. I can't fix garbage input.
Your proposal builds a mechanism which encourages making decisions based upon parsing garbage input. >From our diff: +.It Fl H +Use the hostname from the received message +.Pq if detected +instead of the address from which the message was received. In a nutshell, your proposal is to trust the garbage more than the srcip. The srcip has some value of truth, the message contents have none. I don't think syslogd should have the feature you propose.
