What does `netstat -p udp` say?

On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Daniel Brown wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> I've been busily setting up a NetBSD 1.3.2/sparc box as a syslogging host, and
> have had a fair amount of success in doing so.
> 
> However, I've noticed that on random, infrequent occasions, syslogd just stops
> logging messages delivered via udp from other (Solaris) hosts, but keeps
> on logging messages generated locally (presumably via /dev/*log).
> 
> You can watch the packets arriving via tcpdump, but no logging occurs.
> Restarting syslogd restores normal behaviour.
> 
> I was wondering if this was a known problem, and if so, wherein lies the cure?
> 
> Dan.
> 
> P.S. I'm running with a faintly modified syslogd, that always logs time
> stamps, and a slightly modified newsyslog, that allows execution of log
> digesting scripts on logs in the process of being rotated. However -
> none of this should affect the receiving/logging of messages...
> 
> root@sun3[/usr/src/usr.sbin/syslogd]# uname -a
> NetBSD sun3 1.3.2 NetBSD 1.3.2 (GENERIC_SCSI3) #0: Sun May 10 23:24:39 MEST 1998     pk@flambard:/usr/src1/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC_SCSI3 sparc
> 

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