On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > On tis, 2010-08-10 at 07:32 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_DNS_lookup#Multiple_pointer_records > > Yeah, you can configure all kinds of nonsense and sometimes even get > away with it, but the basic assumption throughout is that a system has > one host name and between 1 and many IP addresses.
These days, I think it's more common the other way around: one IP address, and many host names. > We must make our > implementation robust again other setups, but we don't have to (or > rather cannot) support them. "Cannot" is a good argument for not supporting just about anything. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
