> and if you have it listen to 127.0.0.1, you see 127.0.0.1 in netstat? Yes, netstat reflects exactly what I have in listen_addresses: listen_addresses = '127.0.0.1, ::1' ~ netstat -an | grep 5432 tcp6 0 0 ::1.5432 *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.5432 *.* LISTEN If it's just '127.0.0.1' it just lists the tcp4 line. > and psql -h 127.0.0.1 still fails? Yes. > is lo0 still there (ifconfig)? ~ ifconfig lo0 lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD> -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general