Re: pg_hba.conf confusion

Thanks, that did fix that problem. Now I have another one. The line:

host all 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.128 password

matches all ip addresses of the form 192.168.1.x. If I change the mask
to 255.255.255.255 it no longer matches all addresses. Although this
fixes the problem, it seems strange to me that it works this way.
Basically, if mask is something other than 255.255.255.255, you might
as well put 0's in your id address. This doesnt seem to be how subnet
masks normally work and it seems redundant to me.

Is there something I don't understand?

Thanks,
David

Reinhard Max wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 at 20:47, David M. Kaplan wrote:
>
>>host all 127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 ident sameuser
>>
>
>If you want this entry to match only the loopback device, the mask has
>to be 255.255.255.255 instead of 0.0.0.0. A mask of 0.0.0.0 causes
>*all* IP addresses to match this line.
>
>cu
> Reinhard
>
>