| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Mark Woodward <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <eulerto(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)br>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Why don't we allow DNS names in pg_hba.conf? |
| Date: | 2006-02-13 16:54:43 |
| Message-ID: | 43F0B9D3.7010606@dunslane.net |
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Mark Woodward wrote:
>>If I am a road warrior I want to be able to connect, run my dynamic dns
>>client, and go.
>>
>>
>>
>In your scenario of working as a road warrior, you are almost
>certainly not going to be able to have a workable DNS host name unless you
>have a raw internet IP address. More than likely you will have an IP
>address (known to your laptop) as a 192 or 10 address.
>
Nonsense. There is a dynamic DNS client that is quite smart enough to
find out and use the gateway address. See: http://ddclient.sourceforge.net/
I'm sure there are others, including some for Windows.
cheers
andrew
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