log packets will be sent from any local address available.</p>
<p>It is safe to create several sink backends with the same local addresses - the backends within the process will share the same socket. The same applies to different processes that use the syslog backends to send records from the same socket. However, it is not guaranteed to work if some third party facility is using the socket.</p>
<p>On systems with native syslog implementation it may be preferable to utilize the POSIX syslog API instead of 