"C. Bensend" <benny@bennyvision.com> writes:
>> I had setup my pg_hba.conf originally like this:
>> host all all 10.15.0.0 255.255.255.0 trust
>>
>> I was under the impression that the .0 was supposed to be equivalent to
>> a wildcard entry so that any connection from 10.15 would be able to
>> connect. This was not so. By changing my pg_hba.conf to this:
> Yes, when your subnet mask is set for a /24, that's correct.
To expand a bit: the correct way of letting in a /16 would be
host all all 10.15.0.0 255.255.0.0 trust
In recent PG releases (7.4.*, not sure about 7.3) you could also write
host all all 10.15.0.0/16 trust
regards, tom lane