filling up UDP socket buffers like mad

[Michael W. Lucas]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:22:18AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 06:03:47PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote:
> [ ... ]
> > udp4   43414      0  *.514                  *.*                    
> > udp4       0      0  *.49661                *.*    
> > ...
> > 
> > We have no firewall on this machine; it's buried behind three layers
> > of firewall.
> 
> Heh.  :-)  Well, it's pretty clear that the syslog traffic isn't being drained
> by the syslog daemon properly.  I've seen syslogd get stuck like that if it was
> forwarding logs to another host specified by name and not IP, and it was having
> problems resolving it.

This *is* the loghost other hosts are forwarding their logs to.  So,
I'm pretty sure that's not it.  :-)

==ml

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