syslogd reporting ip address when reporting remotely

[Kevin_31]

Hello, I'm setting up my machines to dump all the syslogd entries to a
central server. It's working okay, but the remotely logged entries
are all prefaced with the ip address of the machine it comes from.
I'd prefer it to resolve that to the machine's hostname. Is there
something wrong with my DNS/NIS or, in other words can I/how can I fix
this?

cheers,
Kevin

[melvyn burnard · Accepted solution]

on th esystem you are doing the logging, use nslookup to check whether it can resolve the hostname/ip address.
nslookup hostname
nslookup ip_address.

[Christopher McCray_1]

do you have a sample of the output? I don't need the IP, just the message including it. Does it say inetd[some #]connetction from (ip_address)? If so this means you have logging enabled with your inetd, which in this case is normal. You will see this message when it is pretty much idle. Please put a sample out here so we can see it.

Thanks
Chris

[Kevin_31]

ahhh, it was the first (DNS resolution problem).

cheers for the speedy replies guys.

sorted by adding syslog 'client' hostname to DNS (magic!)