Yes I'm running on amazon.aws and yes I requested my admin to open the port, do you know how I can check its status iptables -L -vn Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 44554 packets, 6381K bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:5436 Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 43998 packets, 6200K bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination -----Original Message----- From: Adrian Klaver [mailto:adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 2:42 PM To: Jacques Lamothe Cc: rod@xxxxxx; pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: UNABLE TO CONNECT REMOTELY TO port 5436 - CRITICAL On 12/27/2011 11:39 AM, Jacques Lamothe wrote: > Yes I did More guesses. Looks like you may be running on Amazon AWS? If so, did you change the AWS firewall to allow port 5436? > > -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general