Re: BUG #7632: Postgres binds to all IPs even when listen_addresses="localhost"

On 10/31/12 1:43 PM, Paul Jungwirth wrote:
>> This behaves as expected for me.  I'm wondering whether your DNS
>> >server is resolving "localhost" as meaning both 127.0.0.1 and your
>> >public IP.  "dig localhost." might be illuminating.
> Wow, that is some psychic debugging. Sure enough, my /etc/hosts is
> setting localhost to both 127.0.0.1 and my other IP. Using
> `listen_addresses = '127.0.0.1'` fixes the problem.


fix your /etc/hosts .... thats an artifact of the #@$@# RHEL installer,
if the network isn't properly configured at install time, it loves to do
that with the hostname.



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