Re: host name support in pg_hba.conf

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: host name support in pg_hba.conf
Date: 2010-08-10 14:32:43
Message-ID: 1281450763.19111.15.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com
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On tis, 2010-08-10 at 09:18 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Without the logic to ensure that the hostname matches the reverse
> lookup, this might be useful for us. With that logic it is useless
> for us. I'm wondering how much you gain by having it in there. Why
> can't a forward lookup which matches the requesting IP be considered
> sufficient?

For one thing, because people might like to add wildcard support. So I
might be able to say

host all all appserver*.example.com md5

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