rewriting syslog hostname

[peterand-pa]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

For logging to syslog, we need to be able to record the host of the source dnstap message, not the

Describe the solution you'd like

Ability to configure hostname: with the static text OR contents of a variable

[dmachard]

#583

[dmachard]

The hostname can be configured with the following setting:

  # set syslog hostname
  hostname: ""

[peterand-pa]

Sorry, some requirements got missed, For our requirement, I was meaning "hostname" to be dynamic based on the DNS server the dnstap message came from. As it stands , I have to feed the output through another process to populate and accurate value in our splunk logs

[dmachard]

Add the server identity in the text-format setting is not enough ?
Anyway, I will take a look to allowing any fields from the DNStap message to be added to the hostname