From: | "Dickson S(dot) Guedes" <guediz(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: TODO Item: Allow pg_hba.conf to specify host names along with IP addresses |
Date: | 2008-06-13 19:54:20 |
Message-ID: | f0b79c6f0806131254q36aff3fenb5bbeb9a3d6cf8d2@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> The reason it wasn't done years ago was that there was disagreement on
>> the way it should work. And the TODO actually lists several alternatives:
>
> IIRC, the major reason there was disagreement was the prospect of
> unacceptable performance from any of the easy or obvious
> implementations. As Andrew S notes, you can't just do the lookups
> once at postmaster start; but resolving a pile of hostnames during
> each connection is pretty unpleasant, especially if the DNS server
> isn't local. (And then there are the effective-DOS implications if
> the DNS server is down altogether.)
Yes, if DNS server is down during a init connection, or server
startup, we can have problems.
> The attraction of the reverse-lookup approach is that you do only
> one lookup, on the actual connection IP, rather than having to
> resolve every hostname in the file to see if it matches.
SSH uses an approach like that.
> However that way had disadvantages of its own, which I don't recall at the
> moment. I think at least some of the issues had to do with security,
> ie how much can you trust an answer from a remote DNS server.
> Check the archives before you start implementing ...
I'm seeing alternatives and studing the code and the email replies,
but not start coding yet.
Thanks Tom.
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