Re: host name support in pg_hba.conf

Kevin Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e@gmx.net>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-08-09T18:56:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
 
> The client's IP address (known from the kernel)
 
Some machines have several IP addresses; how is that handled?
 
> is reverse looked up, which results in a host name.
 
Some IP addresses have several host names, including in reverse
lookup; how is that handled?
 
-Kevin