SecurityRatty: TCP Syslog =/= Reliable?

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TCP Syslog =/= Reliable?

2008-04-03 13:28:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -

Usually, people associate UDP-based log transfer with being "unreliable" and TCP with being "reliable." Rainier here raises a few interesting issues (not the least of which is TCP buffering) that question the reliability of TCP syslog.

Is there a need for a "more reliable" TCP with application-level ACKs? Maybe ... but not in the world where UDP syslog is still king.