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From: glenn@csri.toronto.edu (Glenn Mackintosh)
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Subject: Re: syslog.conf and `LOGHOST'
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schoch@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Steve Schoch) writes:

>My question is:  "How does syslogd find out whether the current host is
>the loghost or not?"  It doesn't seem to work on our system.  Does it use
>gethostbyname()?  I have modified libc.so to use the nameserver instead of
>the host table.

Since you are using the nameserver you are going to need an A record for
"loghost" in the nameserver data. I.e. something of the form:

loghost			IN	A	???.???.???.???

                    Glenn Mackintosh
                    Univ. of Toronto

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