Re: CIDR in pg_hba.conf

From: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CIDR in pg_hba.conf
Date: 2003-05-07 18:37:44
Message-ID: 45070000.1052332664@lerlaptop.iadfw.net
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--On Wednesday, May 07, 2003 13:57:21 -0400 Andrew Dunstan
<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:

>
> I'm feeling ambitious ;-)
>
> Seriously, I think this would be very worthwhile - I hate having to
> remember IP addresses.
>
> It would all be done by now except that I have to handle the IPv6 stuff
> (thanks god for edition 2 of Stevens).
>
> andrew
One thing I thought of, is when do you do the resolution of name-to-ip?
You may need
to think about spoofs and DNS issues.

Please think about this, as cache-poisoning, and trashy reverse-DNS is a
real issue
out there.

LER

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