I am running an iMail server on a windows machine that is giving its logs to a freeBSD machine where syslogd takes them. I have tried changing the ip that directs the logs to freeBSD to the ip of a Mandrake machine running syslogd. I am not sure how to verify that the logs are getting through to syslogd on Mandrake. only the nameserver can ping mandrake. mandrake cannot ping localhost but it can ping out to google and some of the LAN ips but not all of them. the mailserver cannot ping mandrake but mandrake can ping the mailserver. i have tried setting syslogd on the freeBSD machine(pingable from mandrake and vice versa) to forward the logs to mandrake but i still have the same problem of not knowing how to verify that the logs are being recieved by anything.

::some settings in files::
/etc/services: syslog 514/udp
/etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 ftpserver's_ip.com ftp localhost
/etc/hosts.allow: ALL : ALL : ALLOW
/etc/hosts.deny: ALL:ALL EXCEPT 127.0.0.1:DENY

thanks in advance guys.