Use this documentation with care! It describes
the heavily outdated version 5, which was actively
developed around 2010 and is considered dead by the
rsyslog team for many years now.
This documentation reflects the latest update of the
previously existing (now removed) v5-stable branch.
It describes the 5.10.2 version, which was never
released. As such, it contains some content that
does not apply to any released version.
To obtain the doc that properly matches your installed
v5 version, obtain the doc set from your distro. Each
version of rsyslog contained the version that exactly
matches it.
As general advise, it is strongly suggested to
upgrade to the current version supported by the rsyslog
project. The current version can always be found on
the right-hand side info box on the
rsyslog web site.
Note that there is no rsyslog community support available
for this heavily outdated version. If you need to stick
with it, please ask your distribution for support.
Type: global configuration directive
Default: off
Description:
Rsyslog contains code to detect malicious DNS PTR records (reverse name resolution). An attacker might use specially-crafted DNS entries to make you think that a message might have originated on another IP address. Rsyslog can detect those cases. It will log an error message in any case. If this option here is set to “on”, the malicious message will be completely dropped from your logs. If the option is set to “off”, the message will be logged, but the original IP will be used instead of the DNS name.
Sample:
$DropMsgsWithMaliciousDnsPTRRecords on
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This documentation is part of the rsyslog project. Copyright © 2007 by Rainer Gerhards and Adiscon. Released under the GNU GPL version 2 or higher.