Re: Why don't we allow DNS names in pg_hba.conf?

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