On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 18:57 -0500, vince@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Can you try and telnet to the box from your server on port 5432? > > I don't have shell access to the webserver machine. I can connect from one of > my local machines via: telnet 24.85.82.xxx 5432 > > It brings up an empty console that closes after I enter input. > ok.. in all of your tests you have been connecting across your local network, which takes the shaw devices out of the equation. if you are able to connect with pgAdmin3 via ip address (and from your message it seems that you are), my guess is that pgsql is accepting connections via tcp/ip. since you are attempting to connect to pgsql on your local network from your web server (which is hosted elsewhere) and it times out, this tells me that there is a device in the middle someplace that is firewalling the packets. you are *unlikely* to convince shaw to make firewall changes (if that is what is happening) so you can do this. ok.. now the hopefully easy question :): why are you trying to set things up this way? regards, J -- Jeff MacDonald Zoid Technologies, http://zoidtechnologies.com/
