Cott Lang <cott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm running 7.4.8 on RHEL 3.0 x86. > Today, on two separate servers, I modified the resolv.conf file to point > from two functioning name servers to two others. > Within 5 minutes, one server would not accept new remote connections. I > could log in fine w/ psql locally. This is pretty bizarre ... offhand I would not have thought that the postmaster depended on DNS service at all. Were you maybe using DNS names instead of IP addresses in pg_hba.conf? What exactly does "would not accept" mean --- what was the exact error message, and was there anything in the postmaster log? regards, tom lane
