Re: default port number

Many thanks, Kevin.

'*' is a bit too wide for my taste. I wonder
if it is possible to specify something like
network mask (or range)? I may be a bit
paranoid, but...

Regards,

Tena Sakai
tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org on behalf of Kevin Kempter
Sent: Tue 9/4/2007 11:08 AM
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] default port number

On Tuesday 04 September 2007 12:06:29 Tena Sakai wrote:
> Thank you, Kevin Kempter.
> Thank you, Kevin Grittner,
>
> In order for me to accept foreign odbc connection,
> one of the things I must to is to change
> listen_addresses = 'localhost'
> to something like:
> listen_addresses = 'ip-address-A, ip-address-B'
>
> But those machines on the list are dhcp clients
> and their ip addresses change from time to time.
> Is there something I can do to accomodate such
> moving targets?

You can use hostnames instead of I.P.'s or you can set:

listen_addresses = '*'

Note that just because postgres will listen to all hosts ('*') the actual
authentication access is controlled by pg_hba.conf

>
> Regards,
>
> Tena Sakai
> tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org on behalf of Kevin Kempter
> Sent: Tue 9/4/2007 10:09 AM
> To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] default port number
>
> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 10:59:38 Tena Sakai wrote:
> > Hi Everybody,
> >
> > I had been running postgres with postgresql.conf file
> > as little changed as possible from distributed version.
> > And lately I became a bit curious as well as confused.
> >
> > In my configuration file both lines
> > #listen_addresses = 'localhost'
> > and
> > #port = 5432
> > are commented out.
> >
> > What does this mean? Is postgress listening on port
> > 5432?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Tena Sakai
> > tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu
>
> The above values are the defaults, postgres should be listening on port
> 5432 and only listening on localhost for connections. You can double check
> by running these commands in a psql session:
>
> show listen_addresses ;
>
> show port ;
>
>
> /Kevin
>
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