Is it possible to connect lilith to external server? about lilith HOT 5 CLOSED

If the external server can connect to the relevant open Lilith port then yes.

You are probably behind a firewall/NAT and would need to configure port forwarding. If you have a dynamic IP address you'd also need to change it in the logback config accordingly.

Anyway: that's not a Lilith issue so I'll close it.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Jörn.

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Hmm, what with doing it other way round...
To setup a 'log server' that lilith could connect to?
Is it possible ?

Cheers.

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This is supported by log4j and Logback (recently) but is unsupported by Lilith.

The thing is that doing so is basically a security nightmare. Anybody could connect to that port and just linger, causing the application to grind to a halt if the event buffer fills up to the brim, making it perfect for a DoS attack.

It wouldn't be too hard to support this in Lilith (I guess) but I don't want to encourage people to use a potentially dangerous feature...

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This is supported by log4j and Logback (recently) but is unsupported by Lilith.

I'm using logback. Do you mean ServerSocketAppender ?

The thing is that doing so is basically a security nightmare. Anybody could connect to that port and just linger, causing the application to grind to a halt if the event buffer fills up to the brim, making it perfect for a DoS attack.

Wouldn't it be a matter of securing it somehow?
Allowing access from selected IPs only or maybe setting up a dedicated VPN?

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Yes, ServerSocketAppender.

The thing is:
if you are using a VPN you could simply use SocketAppender instead since you'd then have a dedicated non-dynamic IP address in the VPN. That's how we use Logback+Lilith in the production environment of the company I work at and that's the "proper" way regarding security.

If I'd support ServerSocketAppender then I suspect people wouldn't even think twice about issues like that because "it works" - until something bad happens.

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