[loganalysis] Re: Central syslog server best practices?

From: Andreas Östling (andreasoat_private)
Date: Sun Aug 12 2001 - 22:07:17 PDT

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    > > I think it sounds a bit weird that the syslog server is losing data just
    > > because of one host sending to much information.
    
    > Well, when that one host is our firewall, and the rule that's triggering
    > it is a deny on port 80 and we have a Class B network that's being
    > hammered by the world scanning for IIS servers, that's one heck of a lot
    > of information that's being sent.
    
    Sorry, I forgot about Code Red there for a while :)
    
    > I'd be willing to look into an alternate syslogd for this server if this
    > would help.  Is syslog-ng the main alternative or are there others?
    
    Perhaps Modular syslog:
    http://www.core-sdi.com/download/download.html
    
    I hope another syslogd will work better for you (I still think it will).
    
    
    Regards,
    Andreas Östling
    
    
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