On 2023-11-24 16:39:57 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 4:26 PM David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> On Friday, November 24, 2023, Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> The second "way" sounds interesting, but what is it filled with?
With "???"
(which isn't very helpful. I would have hoped it's filled in with a
representation of the IP address)
> What does it matter? It’s an internal detail that apparently gets exposed
> as [unknown] appearing in your log file where the client ip address would
> normally be.
>
>
> Because I'd hope that the log file would tell me the errant host name.
The error message says that the host name could not be determined
because of a DNS error. So obviously it can't tell you the host name.
It could tell you the IP address, though.
> I added "log_hostname = on" to postgresql.conf earlier in the day.
> When I commented that out, the errors stopped happening.
>
>
> This makes sense.
>
>
> But is not explanatory. I want to see host names in the log file when
> possible, not just IP addresses.
So now that you have IP addresses again, are there any for which a
reverse lookup doesn't work?
hp
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