Re: lib/54527 (syslogd hangs when forwarding logs to a IPv6 host that is down)

[Anthony Mallet <tho%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/54527; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Anthony Mallet <tho%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: lib-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost,
    gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: lib/54527 (syslogd hangs when forwarding logs to a IPv6 host
 that is down)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 12:09:38 +0200

 On Tuesday 21 Apr 2020, at 19:50, maya%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
 >  I'm not sure, should the word 'client' be removed from the warning to
 >  avoid confusion if it's used for sending?
 
 I think (IIRC) that what I was trying to say is that the messages are
 a bit noisy.
 
 When the host to which the sylog messages are forwarded is down, I get
 every 5s or so messages like this:
 Oct 31 11:47:21 cactus syslogd[2053]: recvfrom inet: Host is down
 Oct 31 11:47:21 cactus syslogd: warning: can't get client address: Host is down
 
 (I ended up disabling the forwarding in syslog.conf to avoid this pollution).