Reading RSysLog tcp messages - c++

Question

I am attempting to read RSysLog log from a machine running debian linux. I have setup a server on another linux machine and can read the log messages. I want to be able to read them on a windows machine from c++. I have setup the remote machine to distribute the logs to the windows machine. I have an application running on the machine that writes log messages at intervals. The setup to distribute the logs is of the form local1.* ##192.168.1.8 which is the ip address of the windows machine.
I know I am not thinking about this correctly, the remote machine does not attempt a connection to the windows machine and the program hangs on the accept call.
Edit:
After some further testing I figured out that the connect occurs when the syslog daemon is started. To use tcp the server has to be alive when the daemon is started. This is not what I want so I will work more with the UDP implementation.
Here is the code I am using, I have tried to make it as simple as possible.
WSADATA wsaData;
int iResult;
// Initialize Winsock
iResult = WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2, 2), &wsaData);
if (iResult != 0) {
printf("WSAStartup failed: %d\n", iResult);
return 1;
}
SOCKET h;
h = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if (h == INVALID_SOCKET)
{
std::cout << "Socket Failure: " << std::endl;
return 1;
}
std::cout << "Socket Success: " << std::endl;
// The server
sockaddr_in server;
server.sin_family = AF_INET;
server.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("192.168.1.8");
server.sin_port = htons(514);
iResult = bind(h, (SOCKADDR *)&server, sizeof(server));
if (iResult == SOCKET_ERROR)
{
std::cout << "Bind Failure: " << std::endl;
closesocket(h);
return 1;
}
std::cout << "Bind Success: " << std::endl;
if (listen(h, SOMAXCONN))
{
std::cout << "Listen Failure: " << std::endl;
errcode = WSAGetLastError();
closesocket(h);
return 1;
}
std::cout << "Listen Success: " << std::endl;
struct sockaddr_in dest;
int addrlen = sizeof(dest);
SOCKET s = accept(h, (sockaddr *)&dest, &addrlen);
if (s == INVALID_SOCKET)
{
std::cout << "Accept Failure: " << std::endl;
}
else
{
std::cout << "Accept Success: " << std::endl;
}
WSACleanup();
return 0;

Answer 1

You probably need SOCK_DGRAM instead of SOCK_STREAM.
Syslog on port 514 seems to send UDP packets, not TCP.
You could also try to connect to the server with a browser to check if all the rest is ok (seems ok though) - 192.168.1.8:514 (while still in TCP mode).