logging to syslog on another host?

[Sten Carlsen]

Hi

I was considering to use the syslog on a different host for logging from bind. The purpose was to collect logs from various places into one repository.

This is not a busy installation so performance is not expected to be a problem.

I looked in the arm but could not see where I could put the IP/hostname of the host to receive the syslog.

Question:
Can bind send its logging output to an external syslog?
If it can, what is needed in terms of version etc.? How to put this into log statement?

Thanks in advance.

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[Jaco Lesch]

Sten

The syslog daemon on the machine where BIND runs on will send the syslog messages to the central syslog server. So you need to configure your syslog.conf file to send the facility that BIND uses, normaly daemon, to the remote syslog server.

The syslog.conf on Solaris looks something like this:
# logging to remote syslog server
daemon.info            @syslog.domain.com
# send to local file on server
daemon.info            /var/log/messages

Hope this helps.

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[Mark Andrews]

It's syslogd's job to relay messages to other servers. You
need to configure syslogd to do this for named.

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[David Monro]

I think the normal way to do this is run a syslog server on the host
running bind, which is configured to just forward all log messages to
the remote syslog server. Otherwise, bind would have to implement the
syslog network protocol(s) itself, rather than just use the system
standard local syslog functions.

Cheers

David

On 30/05/12 19:46, Sten Carlsen wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was considering to use the syslog on a different host for logging
> from bind. The purpose was to collect logs from various places into
> one repository.
>
> This is not a busy installation so performance is not expected to be a
> problem.
>
> I looked in the arm but could not see where I could put the
> IP/hostname of the host to receive the syslog.
>
> Question:
> Can bind send its logging output to an external syslog?
> If it can, what is needed in terms of version etc.? How to put this
> into log statement?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> Best regards
>
> Sten Carlsen
>
> No improvements come from shouting:
> "MALE BOVINE MANURE!!!"
>
>

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[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 30.05.12 12:16, Sten Carlsen wrote:
>I was considering to use the syslog on a different host for logging from
>bind. The purpose was to collect logs from various places into one
>repository.

[...]

>Can bind send its logging output to an external syslog?

Not directly. However, that is what syslog daemon is for, simply
configure it to forward logs to another machine.

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[Sten Carlsen]

Hi

Thanks for good answers, I now know what to do and how to proceed.

Thanks.

On 30/05/12 13:17, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:

On 30.05.12 12:16, Sten Carlsen wrote:

I was considering to use the syslog on a different host for logging from
bind. The purpose was to collect logs from various places into one
repository.

[...]

Can bind send its logging output to an external syslog?

Not directly. However, that is what syslog daemon is for, simply configure it to forward logs to another machine.

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Best regards

Sten Carlsen

No improvements come from shouting:

       "MALE BOVINE MANURE!!!"