I have setup the syslog-ng server to accept log messages from remote host through syslogd in Linux and Snare in Windows platform. After successfully implementing this, I started to configure hosts to send the log messages to the central syslog-ng server. During this, it was found that the remote servers were able to send messages successfully but the messages logged had IP address in place of hostname.

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