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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2008-08-07 10:18:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2008-08-07 10:18:31 +0200 |
| commit | b761fbb0f0c9d5cf253ad3f58f7d8486b5650e85 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b66cbb98ef49b4be716ce630cde258a96233eb5 /doc/rsyslog_conf.html | |
| parent | e39f202c75af187f96a1af07e60892a63e45cd3f (diff) | |
| parent | 6f75d5460b12d6f57b3671d71d889747da0074cc (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'v2-stable' into v3-stable
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diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf.html index cdfffec4..e65be0bc 100644 --- a/doc/rsyslog_conf.html +++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf.html @@ -858,6 +858,15 @@ port 1470.</p> <p>In the example above, messages are forwarded via UDP to the machine 192.168.0.1, the destination port defaults to 514. Messages will not be compressed.</p> +<p>Note that IPv6 addresses contain colons. So if an IPv6 address is specified +in the hostname part, rsyslogd could not detect where the IP address ends +and where the port starts. There is a syntax extension to support this: +put squary brackets around the address (e.g. "[2001::1]"). Square +brackets also work with real host names and IPv4 addresses, too. +<p>A valid sample to send messages to the IPv6 host 2001::1 at port 515 +is as follows: +<p>*.* @[2001::1]:515 +<p>This works with TCP, too. <p><b>Note to sysklogd users:</b> sysklogd does <b>not</b> support RFC 3164 format, which is the default forwarding template in rsyslog. As such, you will experience duplicate hostnames if rsyslog is |