[logs] on the unreliability of plain tcp syslog

Rainer Gerhards rgerhards at hq.adiscon.com
Wed Apr 2 07:26:42 PDT 2008


Hi folks,

I guess at least a few will bash me with telling old news, but I just
wrote a quick blog post with some technical relevance on why plain tcp
syslog is an inherently unreliable protocol. In case someone is actually
surprised or would like to bash me, please spend a minute at:

http://rgerhards.blogspot.com/2008/04/on-unreliability-of-plain-tcp-sysl
og.html

Thanks,
Rainer



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