Missing or errooneous pg_hba.conf file

Hello,

Running 7.4.2 on Solaris 8 (binaries were built on
a different Solaris 8 box).

I keep getting the following message when trying to
connect to server:

FATAL: missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file
HINT: see server log for details.

Server log contains message:

LOG: invalid entry in pg_hba.conf file at line 60,
token "255.255.255.255"

The only change I've made was to postgresql.conf to
change "tcpip_socket = true". I have not modified
pg_hba.conf at all. Line 60 is the default 'host'
entry for 127.0.0.1. The token in question is the
IP-MASK field.

I have found that if I change this value to anything
other than "255.255.255.255" (e.g. "255.255.255.254")
the message goes away.

I get the same message if I add other lines with
IP-MASK=255.255.255.255 to the pg_hba.conf file.
It just doesn't seem to like '255.255.255.255' for
some reason.

I get the error using both the 'psql -h ...' command
and trying to connect via JDBC.

Incidentally, I saw the same problem running in 7.4.1.
I ended up just commenting out line 60 to get around
it. But now I need IP-MASK=255.255.255.255 so I
need to get it resolved. Interestingly the same 7.4.1
binary running on a different machine did not exhibit
the problem. Could it be a Solaris patch level
thing?

thanks in advance,

Bill
billybobc1210(at)yahoo(dot)com

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