Hi all, I'm a bit new to postgresql. I've been able to configure the database and the jdbc interface successfully. I interface via PAM (krb5) and that works OK in the pg_hba.conf file. I've added the -i option to the postmaster startup script service (using binary RPMs on Fedora Core 4) for tcp connections (default port 5432). The only way I can connect to the database via JDBC seems to be by IP address (both locally and on another system allowed by the pg_hba.conf file). jdbc:postgresql://theipaddressofdatabaseserver/mydatabase I'd like to be able to connect to the database this way using a DNS name / computer host name. The specific error I recieve is on the lines of no route to host. I'm sure I'm just missing a simple setting somewhere. Can anyone point me in the right direction? pg_hba.conf host mydatabase all 127.0.0.1/32 pam host mydatabase all theipsubnet/24 pam Many thanks, Jonathan