Re: CIDR in pg_hba.conf

From: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: "PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CIDR in pg_hba.conf
Date: 2003-05-09 15:36:27
Message-ID: 008201c31640$c328b9d0$6401a8c0@DUNSLANE
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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(at)dunslane(dot)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.

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