Re: Name Lookup Weirdness

Holger Klawitter <lists@klawitter.de> writes:
> I have made a very weird observation with JDBC. After a major machine upgrade
> postgres 7.3.4 no longer accepts JDBC connection requests *of a certain
> kind*:

> jdbc:postgresql://my.host.name/dbname    works
> jdbc:postgresql://127.0.0.1/dbname       works
> jdbc:postgresql://localhost/dbname       does not work?!
> jdbc:postgresql:dbname                   does not work

Something broken about your DNS configuration?  Although it's not
obvious why "psql -h localhost dbname" wouldn't be affected too...

            regards, tom lane