[cs615asa] HW5 - Any chance we can get a hostname/FQDN for the IPv6 target?

Jan Schaumann jschauma at stevens.edu
Mon Apr 16 22:19:59 EDT 2012


Tejas <tnadkarn at stevens.edu> wrote:
> It appears I rolled the dice and lost. The Fedora 8 AMI (default for  
> ec2-start-instance in HW3) I'm using has a very old rsyslogd that  
> doesn't support IPv6 direct addressing and needs a hostname or DNS to  
> work. Can we get a FQDN that will resolve to the IPv6 we're given or do  
> I need to figure out a way to update the rsyslogd on the existing AMI?  
> IPv4 works and SSH over IPv6 works so this is just a rsyslogd issue...

You can: upgrade rsyslogd, use a different syslogd implementation, use a
different AMI, fake a hostname for the IP address somehow, ...

-Jan


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