Re: Are dns CNAME's allowed or useable in pg_hba.conf hostname specification

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Thanks for the quick reply.  Here’s some details on how we have things configured.

We are using RHEL 7.3,  the DNS names below have been changed to protect the innocent or not so innocent depending on your point of view.

If I do a nslookup on the database host against the following CNAME some-cname-host.example.com I get:

$> nslookup  some-cname-host.example.com
Server:             10.97.40.215
Address:          10.97.40.215#53

some-cname-host.example.com         canonical name = canonical-host-name.example.com.
Name: canonical-host-name.example.com
Address: 10.65.160.213
 
When I do the reverse lookup on the IP address return above I get the following:

$> nslookup 10.65.160.213
Server:             10.97.40.215
Address:          10.97.40.215#53

213.160.65.10.in-addr.arpa    name = canonical-host-name.example.com.


In our pg_hba.conf I have a line:

# TYPE DATABASE  USER ADDRESS METHOD
hostssl replication streaming_user_name  some-cname-host.example.com

But when I try to connect as the streaming_user_name with the following command, I get the following error (postgresql_hostname is the host where I ran the nslookups above):

bash-4.2$ psql -U streaming_user_name -h postgresql_hostname   -c "IDENTIFY_SYSTEM"   replication=1
psql: FATAL:  no pg_hba.conf entry for replication connection from host "10.65.160.213", user "streaming_user_name", SSL on
FATAL:  no pg_hba.conf entry for replication connection from host "10.65.160.213", user "streaming_user_name", SSL off

So I am not sure what I would need to fix or add on the database host to allow it to resolve the CNAME in way the postgres instance could use it and have it pass the validation rules from the documentation.  Am I missing something in the DNS configurations?


On Dec 5, 2016, at 3:56 PM, Scott Whitney <scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Honestly, if your DNS is properly setup, it should work fine, yes.



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Subject:  Are dns CNAME's allowed or useable in pg_hba.conf hostname specification
 
From reading the doc’s it looks like a CNAME will not in general work as a hostname specification in pg_hba.conf.  Is that a correct interpretation of the the documentation?

From the doc’s (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/auth-pg-hba-conf.html

If a host name is specified (anything that is not an IP address range or a special key word is treated as a host name), that name is compared with the result of a reverse name resolution of the client's IP address (e.g., reverse DNS lookup, if DNS is used). Host name comparisons are case insensitive. If there is a match, then a forward name resolution (e.g., forward DNS lookup) is performed on the host name to check whether any of the addresses it resolves to are equal to the client's IP address. If both directions match, then the entry is considered to match. (The host name that is used in pg_hba.conf should be the one that address-to-name resolution of the client's IP address returns, otherwise the line won't be matched. Some host name databases allow associating an IP address with multiple host names, but the operating system will only return one host name when asked to resolve an IP address.)



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