On Tue, 2014-08-19 at 09:27 +0100, Richard Turner wrote: > On 19 Aug 2014 08:35, "Mathieu Bridon" <bochecha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 21:09 +0100, Richard Turner wrote: > > > I'm running PostgreSQL on my box, and need to have some VMs I run > > > connect to it. I'd not propose that port 5432 was open by default > > > though. > > > > As Elad said in the email you replied to: > > > > >> Right now in the firewalld policy in Fedora Workstation any > > >> non-root port is unblocked by default. > > > > I haven't checked yet, but to me that means that port 5432 is open > by > > default. > > Duh! Yes, of course; I wasn't thinking. > > The reason that example was in my mind is that very day I ran into the > problem of a VM being unable to connect via port 5432. Admittedly I'd > had to start postgresql manually (using systemctl) owing to a stale > lock file, might that have made a difference? The port definitely > wasn't open. Having them open is the behaviour on Fedora 21, and it's a relatively new behaviour there. Did you observe the port being closed on earlier Fedora releases? -- Mathieu -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop