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diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf.html index 39e69c90..d3858941 100644 --- a/doc/rsyslog_conf.html +++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf.html @@ -788,7 +788,7 @@ administration needs.<br> forward messages it has received from the network to another host. Specify the "-h" option to enable this.</b></p> <p>To forward messages to another host, prepend the hostname with -the at sign ("@"). A single at sign means that messages will +the at sign ("@"). A single at sign means that messages will be forwarded via UDP protocol (the standard for syslog). If you prepend two at signs ("@@"), the messages will be transmitted via TCP. Please note that plain TCP based syslog is not officially standardized, but @@ -871,6 +871,15 @@ 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. Since rsyslog 3.21.3 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 |