Re: Syslog over Internet

[Valter Santos <vsantola () devfusion net>]

On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 15:59, Vineet Mehta wrote:
> I have hired a server located in a different country. I heard that its
> better to log all your syslog messages on a different machine. As i dont
> have access to any other machine on that network except in my own
> country.
>
> My question is how safe and efficient it is to log Syslogd messages from
> my server in other country to my server in this country?
>
> Is it really safe? is it adviced to do so, of not then why?


Grrr... That kind of solution don't seems to be very secure IMHO, since
syslog messages will say a lot about your system to any sniffer around.

I will suggest that you configure an ipsec tunnel (VPN) between the two
networks and then pass syslog traffic in the tunnel.

A good start point to learn how to configure a VPN is the FreeS/Wan
project homepage: http://www.freeswan.org/.


have fun
/valter


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