Comment 3 for bug 62803

I also agree with this. sysklogd is an old piece of software, with no new releases since 2001, and can cause deadlocks if used together with a local nameserver (see here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bind-users&m=106550411521807&w=2), or delays in logging if it has to do reverse DNS lookups. syslog-ng allows for DNS lookups to be disabled, and has many other features. It should at least be provided as an alternative.

SuSE has provided support for using syslog-ng since at least 9.1 (through a generic 'syslog' initscript), and other distros (Debian included, as seen in the link below) are considering a replacement for sysklogd:

http://www.gatago.com/linux/debian/devel/17360768.html