| From: | "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> | 
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| To: | "PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | Re: CIDR in pg_hba.conf | 
| Date: | 2003-05-09 15:36:27 | 
| Message-ID: | 008201c31640$c328b9d0$6401a8c0@DUNSLANE | 
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I wish there were a time delay on email, so I wouldn't have sent the mail
below :-)
It just occurred to me that a possibly useful extension to using hostnames
would be to allow wildcarded names, so "*.foo.com" would match anyone in the
foo.com domain. To do this we would have to do reverse lookups after all, I
think.
andrew
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
> My plan was simply at connect time to loop through the stuff returned by
> getaddrinfo looking for a matching address.  Risks in terms of security
and
> connect time are matters for documentation, IMNSHO.
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