Hi, just to be 100% sure everything works upt to the TCP layer... 0. Stop postgres. 1. Open a terminal, enter: nc -l 5432 and leave that running. 2. Open another terminal and enter: nc 127.0.0.1 5432 follow up with some text such as "hello" and then hit CTRL-D So... did "hello" show up in the first Terminal or not? (it should) Bye, Chris. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general