On Tuesday 04 September 2007 12:06:29 Tena Sakai wrote: > Thank you, Kevin Kempter. > Thank you, Kevin Grittner, > > In order for me to accept foreign odbc connection, > one of the things I must to is to change > listen_addresses = 'localhost' > to something like: > listen_addresses = 'ip-address-A, ip-address-B' > > But those machines on the list are dhcp clients > and their ip addresses change from time to time. > Is there something I can do to accomodate such > moving targets? You can use hostnames instead of I.P.'s or you can set: listen_addresses = '*' Note that just because postgres will listen to all hosts ('*') the actual authentication access is controlled by pg_hba.conf > > Regards, > > Tena Sakai > tsakai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Kevin Kempter > Sent: Tue 9/4/2007 10:09 AM > To: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: default port number > > On Tuesday 04 September 2007 10:59:38 Tena Sakai wrote: > > Hi Everybody, > > > > I had been running postgres with postgresql.conf file > > as little changed as possible from distributed version. > > And lately I became a bit curious as well as confused. > > > > In my configuration file both lines > > #listen_addresses = 'localhost' > > and > > #port = 5432 > > are commented out. > > > > What does this mean? Is postgress listening on port > > 5432? > > > > Regards, > > > > Tena Sakai > > tsakai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > The above values are the defaults, postgres should be listening on port > 5432 and only listening on localhost for connections. You can double check > by running these commands in a psql session: > > show listen_addresses ; > > show port ; > > > /Kevin > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at > > http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly