From: Eric Covener Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 23:17:52 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Merge r1903838 from trunk: X-Git-Tag: 2.4.55-rc1-candidate~90 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=50b1f86d3eda3b252c3ff496bd415710d3db9246;p=thirdparty%2Fapache%2Fhttpd.git Merge r1903838 from trunk: emphasize a few things about authz_host - "domain name" is not a good contrast for hostname unqualified, use "partial" as used earlier in the doc - mention that DNS resolution [of the require line arguments] is done at runtime not startup. This may be obvious to developers when you see it uses an ap_expr but the question was specifically asked on IRC. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x@1903839 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_authz_host.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_authz_host.xml index d3ee7e328ca..f68a3c9be18 100644 --- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_authz_host.xml +++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_authz_host.xml @@ -169,8 +169,9 @@ Require host .net example.edu

In contrast to the host provider, this provider does not rely on reverse DNS lookups: it simply queries the DNS for the host name and allows a client if its IP matches. As a consequence, it will only - work with host names, not domain names. However, as the reverse DNS is - not used, it will work with clients which use a dynamic DNS service.

+ work with complete host names that can be resolved in DNS, not partial domain names. + However, as the reverse DNS is not used, and DNS lookups occur at request processing + time (instead of startup), it will work with clients which use a dynamic DNS service.

Require forward-dns dynamic.example.org