Re: PostGreSQL remote access

Further information:
These are the host lines from our pg_hba.conf file:

host    all         all          127.0.0.1           255.255.255.255   trust
host    all         all          0.0.0.0               0.0.0.0                 trust
host    testdb   postgres 208.179.178.94  255.255.255.0        trust

At 03:01 PM 6/23/2003 -0700, you wrote:

System: sparc-sun-solaris2.6
PostGreSQL build: 7.3.3
Problem: remote access through firewall

We installed PostGreSQL on a Solaris machine; we need to access the db remotely, via JDBC or through pgAdmin; we have edited the pg_hba.conf file to (theoretically) allow access to a test db from a developer's PC--but all access attempts (via JDBC or pgAdmin) are rejected with this error message:
        
        A connection error has occurred: FATAL:  No pg_hba.conf entry for host <IP>, user postgres, database testdb

The IP address returned in the error message is for our firewall;
PostGreSQL is configured to receive tcp/ip requests ( tcpip_socket = true in the postgresql.conf, and postmaster is started with the -i option); our sysadmin says that port 5432 is open (as is presumably indicated by the refused connection attempt);
We can connect to the db via JDBC--when the Java program is run on the same machine as PostGreSQL;

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