also make sure you started postgesql with -i option, so you can connect from the lan
Julioc.
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> From: kmartens@wol.co.za
> To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] pg_hba.conf is driving me nuts
> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:39:44 +0200
>
> Hi..yes, I have set the "listen_addresses" to "*"...rather an obvious first
> stop...As I said - I have no problems connecting locally, or on a LAN - no
> sweat at all. Simply cannot get the connection to work from another network
> over a WAN. I believe the problem stems from my not setting pg_hba.conf
> correctly, but I would love to test this!
> This is my pg_hba.conf file from my developement box:
>
> # TYPE DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD
> # IPv4 local connections:
> host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5
> # IPv6 local connections:
> host all all 10.0.0.0/24 md5
> host all all 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 md5
>
> At one stage, I even looked up the source ip address reported by aports when
> I was logged onto the machine remotely..even that address did not work. So I
> figure there is a problem with the subnet mask (don't realy understand the
> address masks all that well - I am a programmer, not a network tekkie, so it
> is kind of new territory for me). What I was wondering is if there was some
> way to allow any host to connect, regardless of ip and subnet which was the
> behaviour I expected from the 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 setting - of course it did
> absolutely nothing.
>
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