Re: BUG #9003: Hard-coding to localhost in postmaster - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:00:48PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 1/28/2014 11:51 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >Based on your setup, why would you not DNS-map "localhost" to whatever
> >127.x.x.x address you gave that gear?  We specifically bind to the
> >"localhost" string and not 127.0.0.1.
>
> from that bit about 'network namespaces', it sounds like they all
> share DNS and /etc/hosts until the latest 6.5 kernel.

Oh, I read:

> We are not currently using network namespaces in OpenShift because they
> were not available

as meaning they have private DNS in each gear, but you might be right.
I never thought you wouldn't have your own DNS in each gear.

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