Re: host name support in pg_hba.conf

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: host name support in pg_hba.conf
Date: 2010-08-10 14:29:40
Message-ID: 1281450580.19111.12.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com
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On tis, 2010-08-10 at 10:11 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> These days, I think it's more common the other way around: one IP
> address, and many host names.

Yes, that setup is very common, but it's actually only an illusion that
DNS creates. The actual machine still has only one host name and some
IP addresses, as far as the kernel is concerned. As you are surely
aware, this situation creates all kinds of problems in practice.

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