On 2/13/06, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Well as one of the people that deploys and managees many, many
> postgresql installations I can say I have never run into the need to
> have dns names and the thought of dns names honestly seems silly. It
> will increase overhead and dependencies that I just wouldn't want in my
> installations.
It is not uncommon for an environment that has already suffered
through one forced renumbering to forbid the use of hard set IPs in
application software.
With IPv6 we will just see more and more of that.