Re: Connect to Postgres problems

On 02/01/2010 08:36 AM, Christine Penner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble getting a connection to Postgres to work from outside
> of my local network. It was working fine at one point. Then I had to
> change IP addresses and I can't get it to work. This is what I've done.
>
> On the computer with Postgres installed I have this in the pg_hba.conf
> file:
> host all all 207.6.93.152/32 md5
>
> in the postgresql.conf file I have this:
> listen_addresses = '*'
> port = 5432
>
> I also have the router set up to forward port 5432 to the computer with
> Postgres installed.
>
> I have confirmed that the IP address in pg_hba.conf and the IP address
> being used to connect to are correct. I know the user name and password
> etc are correct because I can connect locally using the same stuff. The
> only things that have changed since it was working is IP addresses. I
> confirmed they are right. Also when trying to get it working I noticed
> that the port forwarding got disabled somehow so I set that up again but
> still no luck.
>
> I'm at a loss here. What else can I be missing?
>
> Christine Penner
> Ingenious Software
> 250-352-9495
> christine(at)ingenioussoftware(dot)com
>

Did you have Postgres reload the file?:
pg_ctl reload

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