Now, I have set up all the appropriate port forwarding, made sure that there
are no problems with firewalls on the server.
Just to make sure there really is no issue with firewall did you try something like telnet on postgres host and port , like telnet
buggy.pg.net 5432, you should get something like
telnet
buggy.pg.net 5432
Trying buggy.pg.net...
Connected to buggy.pg.net.unknowndomain (some ip)
Escape character is '^]'.
i mean inorder for you to be able to directly connect to the postgres over WAN, you will need to open the postgres port and you should be able to remotely access it, just like you would open ports for ssh and ftp and other utilities.
I am fairly sure this is a result of a problem with pf_hba.conf.Can anyone
advise how to configure pg_hba.conf to permit connections from any subnet
and ip?
If there is no issue with firewall and the port is open the following should do it
host all all
0.0.0.0/0 trust
if you want to avoid opening the port for security reasons use ssh tunneling, or port forwarding something like following
ssh -L 2525:localhost:5432 user@remotehost
this will map the local 2525 port onto the remote hosts 5432 port, now you can simply connect to the postgres like a local instance
psql -h localhost -p 2525 -U postgres
--
Usama Munir Dar
http://linkedin.com/in/usamadarConsultant Architect
Cell:+92 321 5020666
Skype: usamadar