Re: PostGreSQL remote access

Further information:
These are the host lines from our pg_hba.conf file:

host all all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust
host all all 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
trust
host testdb postgres 208.179.178.94 255.255.255.0 trust

At 03:01 PM 6/23/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>System: sparc-sun-solaris2.6
>PostGreSQL build: 7.3.3
>Problem: remote access through firewall
>
>We installed PostGreSQL on a Solaris machine; we need to access the db
>remotely, via JDBC or through pgAdmin; we have edited the pg_hba.conf file
>to (theoretically) allow access to a test db from a developer's PC--but
>all access attempts (via JDBC or pgAdmin) are rejected with this error message:
>
> A connection error has occurred: FATAL: No pg_hba.conf entry for
> host <IP>, user postgres, database testdb
>
>The IP address returned in the error message is for our firewall;
>PostGreSQL is configured to receive tcp/ip requests ( tcpip_socket = true
>in the postgresql.conf, and postmaster is started with the -i option); our
>sysadmin says that port 5432 is open (as is presumably indicated by the
>refused connection attempt);
>We can connect to the db via JDBC--when the Java program is run on the
>same machine as PostGreSQL;
>
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>David Rickard
>Software Engineer
>The GTS Companies
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David(dot)Rickard(at)GTSCompanies(dot)com
Visit us on the World Wide Web
http://www.gtscompanies.com
5650 Jillson St., Los Angeles, CA 90040
(323) 888-8889 x331
(323) 888-1849 [fax]