On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 17:05 +0200, Steven De Vriendt wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to reach my postgres database via a remote connection. Yet > my connection is refused when I try to do that. > I'm using Ubuntu Feisty > Following lines are now in my pg_hba.conf-file: ... > # Connections for all PCs on the subnet > # > # TYPE DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS IP-MASK METHOD > local all all 127.0.0.1/32 255.255.255.0 trust That should be "host", not "local". Local means unix sockets on the same machine. Secondly, 127.0.0.1 is itself only the local machine. Third, if you specify a CIDR address (with /nn) you don't specify a mask as well. You want something like "192.168.1.0/24" rather than "127.0.0.1/32 255.255.255.0". > When I try the following command: > > netstat -nlp | grep 5432 > > I see my subnet mask isn't included: > > root@gis-webserver:~# netstat -nlp | grep 5432 > tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:5432 0.0.0.0:* > LISTEN 8292/postmaster > unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 27162 > 8292/postmaster /var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432 As Tom has already said, change listen_addresses in postgresql.conf and restart the postmaster. If you were connecting with the pg_hba.conf you have listed, you should be seeing: psql: FATAL: missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file HINT: See server log for details. > > Can someone help me out ? > > Thanks ! > > Steven > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend -- Oliver Elphick olly@xxxxxxxxxx Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA ======================================== Do you want to know God? http://www.lfix.co.uk/knowing_god.html