On Saturday 07 March 2009 1:27:02 pm Willy-Bas Loos wrote: > Hi, > > I have a very basic issue that i'd like to discuss > I have just recieved a newly installed database server. > I'm wondering if i should open up the ports to my two clusters 5432 > and 5433 from "Anywhere"? > As an alternative, i could add each ip address both in the firewall > and the pg_hba.conf. > > I feel that it's a stupid question, since there is pg_hba, which > already does this work. > Yet all the people that i know, do it in the firewall AND the pg_hba.conf. > > Is there any potential danger in opening up the firewall for those ports?? > > cheers, > > WBL > > -- I may be misunderstanding but if you don't allow access to ports 5432 and 5433 in the firewall the packets will never get to the point that the rules in pg_hba.conf apply. Also are you running two instances of Postgres listening on different ports? Just trying to figure where the 5433 comes from. -- Adrian Klaver aklaver@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general