Re: Use "samehost" by default in pg_hba.conf?

On 1 okt 2009, at 06.53, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 22:08 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> (Note that you would still need a non-default setting of
>>> listen_addresses for "-h machine_name" to actually work.)
>
>> Which makes this proposal kind of uninteresting.
>
> Although come to think of it ... is there any reason besides sheer
> conservatism to not make the default listen_addresses value '*'?
> It won't result in letting in any outside connections unless you
> also add pg_hba.conf entries.

Absolutely. One less opportunity to DOS the server - it's certainly
cheaper to deal with connection floods by never even answering the
socket. Also, showing up in portscans for example.

Now, that trust authentication is a different issue ;)

/Magnus