Hi,
The latest release of nsca finally increases the 512 characters message limitation to 4096 and is backward compatible with older client using the 512 characters message. This was a long awaited change. The only limitation is the nsca server needs to be upgraded first.
The update is already in Rawhide and I plan to push this as an update in all Fedora and EPEL testing repos and keep it there for some time before pushing to stable so people have a change to catch up. I believe it is ok to push such a change if correctly documented and advertised on selected mailing lists. Am I correct ?
Regards, Xavier
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