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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2008-08-07 10:28:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2008-08-07 10:28:40 +0200 |
| commit | 66300192944fe2c4390e53549ed51b4b25e79524 (patch) | |
| tree | bf63e3c3f11340a8bcf5ad82f1ba7b44156a5a1e /doc | |
| parent | b829284f37add946ac810b125e3bededa1206c96 (diff) | |
| parent | b761fbb0f0c9d5cf253ad3f58f7d8486b5650e85 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'v3-stable' into beta
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diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf.html index d78f616b..72048c5c 100644 --- a/doc/rsyslog_conf.html +++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf.html @@ -870,6 +870,15 @@ 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 |