Re: host name support in pg_hba.conf

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> 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.

These days, I think it's more common the other way around: one IP
address, and many host names.

> We must make our
> implementation robust again other setups, but we don't have to (or
> rather cannot) support them.

"Cannot" is a good argument for not supporting just about anything.

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