BCP 162

RFC 6302

"Logging Recommendations for Internet-Facing Servers", June 2011

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6302.txt
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Status:

BEST CURRENT PRACTICE

Authors:

A. Durand
I. Gashinsky
D. Lee
S. Sheppard

Stream:

IETF

Source:

intarea (int)

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Abstract

In the wake of IPv4 exhaustion and deployment of IP address sharing techniques, this document recommends that Internet-facing servers log port number and accurate timestamps in addition to the incoming IP address. This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.