Thread: configure PG clients for DNS

configure PG clients for DNS

From
Isabella Ghiurea
Date:
Hello Pg Gurus,
I would like to know how can I  configure  PG clients in pg_hba.conf to
use DNS entries ( aka domain/host names) insted of  ip's/CIDR-ADDRESS .
my env: PG version 8.3.6 on RHES 5.1
Thank you
Isabella

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Re: configure PG clients for DNS

From
Rafael Martinez
Date:
Isabella Ghiurea wrote:
> Hello Pg Gurus,
> I would like to know how can I  configure  PG clients in pg_hba.conf to
> use DNS entries ( aka domain/host names) insted of  ip's/CIDR-ADDRESS .
> my env: PG version 8.3.6 on RHES 5.1
> Thank you
> Isabella
>

Hello

You can not do this yet :(

It's an open item in the TODO list:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo

And yes, it will be a good thing to have.

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 Rafael Martinez, <r.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no>
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 University of Oslo, Norway

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