Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On tis, 2010-08-10 at 09:18 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>> Why can't a forward lookup which matches the requesting IP be considered
>> sufficient?
> For one thing, because people might like to add wildcard support. So I
> might be able to say
> host all all appserver*.example.com md5
I don't think that the possibility that we might support that in future
can justify using a slow and not-too-reliable method for ordinary
non-wildcard names.
regards, tom lane