Re: host name support in pg_hba.conf

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: host name support in pg_hba.conf
Date: 2010-08-10 14:05:57
Message-ID: 1281449157.19111.6.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com
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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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