On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:20:17PM +0200, Henrik K wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 03:09:29PM +0100, Per Jessen wrote: > > > > I'm not sure I like the ideas of whitelisting based on IP-addresses, > > it's too inflexible. Why would you not use hostnames? > > Hmm.. ok I think you both (mouss) are right. Ignore my last post. The trust > would go from hostname to hostname, so it's ok. :) Too little time to think. > IMO the right option is wildcards. You might as well ask then, why can't the > sender part be regexed for convienence..
One thing I still have to add. IPs are a pretty foolproof way to whitelist. With hostnames there is a bigger change of failure (by just using a domain instead of exact hostname, letting f.e. dialup users from the domain forge the path).
