Re: [logs] idea: let's scare ourselves...

From: Tom Perrine (tperrine@private)
Date: Mon Aug 09 2004 - 14:34:49 PDT


Interesting.  We all "know" syslog/UDP is bad, but no one has ever
quantified "how bad".

Your example isn't what I saw "in the wild", though.  There, the only
losses we could really easily verify were router congestion on
internal nets causing UDP in general to be dropped, causing gaps in
the log files.  For that scenario, we could have really, really, used
some sequence numbers in the log messages.  All the lossage was in the
net, not on the hosts (source or sink).

Of course, that was a benign environment, not (always) under attack.

-- 
Tom Perrine - tperrine@private
Sony Computer Entertainment America
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