I wish there were a time delay on email, so I wouldn't have sent the mail
below :-)
It just occurred to me that a possibly useful extension to using hostnames
would be to allow wildcarded names, so "*.foo.com" would match anyone in the
foo.com domain. To do this we would have to do reverse lookups after all, I
think.
andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net>
> My plan was simply at connect time to loop through the stuff returned by
> getaddrinfo looking for a matching address. Risks in terms of security
and
> connect time are matters for documentation, IMNSHO.