I am able to track down the problem now. But still I need some help. The
host machine has a firewall and it accepts only ssh (not rsh) connections. I
was wondering if I could use ssh tunneling somehow. I tried tunneling ; but
still it waits for server to respond. Please help !
Thanks and best regards,
Dhananjay
> Dhananjay Mishra <dmishra@vt.edu> writes:
> >> I am trying to open the server for TCP/IP connection. My server is
RedHat
> >> 7.2(postgresql-7.1.
>
> Recent versions of Red Hat (I think as far back as 7.2) have fairly
> draconian packet filtering installed by default. Are you getting a
> "connection refused" error, rather than a Postgres-ish "no pg_hba entry"
> error? If the former, your problem is probably that the kernel is
> configured not to allow any traffic to port 5432. You'll need to poke
> a hole in the filtering rules.
>
> regards, tom lane