Getting Hostname Resolution Errors in rsyslog on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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Issue

  • Cannot resolve hostname ' ': Resource temporarily unavailable

  • The rsyslog service on a RHEL system logs repeated hostname resolution errors and suspends forwarding actions

    Jun 09 09:11:46 logclient rsyslogd[1608]: cannot resolve hostname 'logserver.example.local' [v8.2102.0-13.el8 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2027 ]
    
    Jun 02 09:26:07 logclient rsyslogd[992]: cannot resolve hostname '' [v8.2102.0-113.el9 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2027]
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Rsyslog

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