Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 14:08:11 +1100 From: Scott <freebsd-lists-5@thismonkey.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: syslogd truncating messages on FreeBSD >11.2-R Message-ID: <20191109030811.GA64882@thismonkey.com>
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Hi,
please let me know if there is a better forum for this.
As of 11.3-RELEASE syslogd truncates all forwarded messages to 480 bytes for
IPV4 and 1180 for IPv6.
The change occurs in the added code:
switch (f->f_type) {
case F_FORW:
/* Truncate messages to RFC 5426 recommended size. */
dprintf(" %s", f->fu_forw_hname);
switch (f->fu_forw_addr->ai_addr->sa_family) {
#ifdef INET
case AF_INET:
dprintf(":%d\n",
ntohs(satosin(f->fu_forw_addr->ai_addr)->sin_port));
iovlist_truncate(il, 480);
break;
#endif
There's more code for IPv6 and the function iovlist_truncate itself.
This change is not turned on by a switch and happens automatically, however I
can't find it documented in UPDATING or the release notes. I would have
thought that any change in default behaviour of the system should at least be
documented.
Ideally this change would have been implemented via a switch given that the
RFC mentioned in the code (RFC 5426) does not mandate truncation, but
recommends it when the network MTU is not known.
What's the best way to reach out to the maintainer to suggest a switch to
turn on this code?
Thanks,
Scott
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