Re: host name support in pg_hba.conf - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: host name support in pg_hba.conf
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Msg-id 1281449157.19111.6.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com
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In response to Re: host name support in pg_hba.conf  ("Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>)
Responses Re: host name support in pg_hba.conf  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Re: host name support in pg_hba.conf  ("Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>)
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On tis, 2010-08-10 at 07:32 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_DNS_lookup#Multiple_pointer_records

Yeah, you can configure all kinds of nonsense and sometimes even get
away with it, but the basic assumption throughout is that a system has
one host name and between 1 and many IP addresses.  We must make our
implementation robust again other setups, but we don't have to (or
rather cannot) support them.



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