Re: Why don't we allow DNS names in pg_hba.conf?

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:08:46 -0600,
> Larry Rosenman <lrosenman(at)pervasive(dot)com> wrote:
>> The issue is folks that DON'T set reverse DNS, I.E. have generic
>> rDNS set on their IP's.
>>
>> I've seen (in my ISP days, and on my mailserver) LOTS of folks that
>> can't/won't update Their rDNS, even though it's a STATICLY assigned
>> address.
>>
>> And, as an example, my house IP changes when the PPPoE moves, and I
>> have a DynDns.org Hostname that changes to support that, as well as
>> a CNAME out of my domain to Point to it.
>
> Business class (or Speakeasy) broadband connections will generally
> allow you to have custom PTR records for static IP addresses. When
> using broadband for sheep, the ssh tunnel idea is probably a better
> solution.
>
Understood. I was just pointing out the issue. I have had to whitelist
some of my
mortgage brokers e-mail servers because they hadn't gotten rid of the
generic rDNS
for their mailserver. I just wanted the issue to be in the archives
when/if people
don't like whatever gets committed/

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