| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at> |
| Cc: | "Gavin M(dot) Roy" <gmr(at)ehpg(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: localhost redux |
| Date: | 2004-07-20 12:32:00 |
| Message-ID: | 7625.1090326720@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at> writes:
>> I think you should first trace down what the problem really is --- is
>> your system just misconfigured or is there some fundamental issue that
>> we really ought to answer to?
> The trouble on AIX is, that getaddrinfo only does a nameservice lookup,
> no /etc/hosts.
Wouldn't that break many other programs besides Postgres? But in any
case if your nameserver doesn't resolve localhost, I'd say you'd better
fix your nameserver. See eg, http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2606.html
The ".localhost" TLD has traditionally been statically defined in
host DNS implementations as having an A record pointing to the
loop back IP address and is reserved for such use. Any other use
would conflict with widely deployed code which assumes this use.
regards, tom lane
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