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RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dominic J. Eidson)
Mon May 14 15:07:17 2001

Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 09:08:39 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Dominic J. Eidson" <sauron@the-infinite.org>
To: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>, nanog@nanog.org
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On Mon, 14 May 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:

> Agreed, but some code requires it. Which was my point. I'm talking smaller
> vendors, like Oracle. BTW, how do I fake in-addr.arpa responses for NAT'd
> space? My Oracle 8i server keeps checking the reverse addr every time I try
> to create a DB. It's really annoying. Funny thing, my DB2 servers do the
> same thing ...

I find it funny that PostgreSQL - while being used as replacement for
Oracle by more and more people - does _not_ have this problem... I didn't
even have a NIC in the server when I installed it...

(And yes, PostgreSQL does have ACL's - but the ACL list is checked at
connection time - not everytime you execute a DML statement.)

-- snip --
# By default, allow anything over UNIX domain sockets, localhost and a few
# other machines.
local   all                                             trust
host    all     127.0.0.1       255.255.255.255         trust
host    all     10.20.10.249    255.255.255.255         trust
host    all     10.20.12.194    255.255.255.255         trust
host    all     0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0                 password


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