Understanding the relationship between listeners and hosts

Listeners and hosts can relate to each other in multiple ways. Multiple listeners can point to a single host, or a single listener can point to multiple hosts. The following diagrams demonstrate various ways that listeners and hosts can relate to each other.

Multiple listeners accepting connections for one host

One listener accepting connections for multiple hosts

In this configuration, users are required to authenticate using both their user and host names.

Multiple listeners accepting connections for multiple hosts.

In this configuration, users are required to authenticate using both their user and host names.