Try using the following format in the pg_hba.conf file:
host all all(or your_user_account) your_IP/32 trust (The 32 is the same
as 255.255.255.255 but in CIDR format)
As for the command line you started postmaster with, doesn't the "-i"
require an interface such as an IP address too? If you look below in
your comments, you specify "-i" after your DATA directory but never give
the "-i" an argument?
Casey, J Bart wrote:
> All,
>
> I have read message after message and searched the internet for hours,
> yet I still can’t get a remote computer to connect to port 5432 on my
> Fedora Core 3 system running Postgresql 7.4.7.
>
> What I have done:
>
> 1) Stopped the iptables service
>
> 2) Modified postgresql.conf and added the following lines
>
> tcpip_socket = true
>
> port = 5432
>
> 3) Modified pg_hba.conf and added
>
> host all all (my ip address) 255.255.255.255 trust
>
> 4) Modified the postgresql startup script to use the –i flag
>
> 5) Verified that postmaster is running with the –i flag… ps ax | grep
> postmaster output:
>
> 4259 pts/1 S 0:00 /usr/bin/postmaster -p 5432 -D /var/lib/pgsql/data –i
>
> 6) Tried to verify that the server was listening on port 5432 only to
> find out that it isn’t. The netstat output follows:
>
> tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8438 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
>
> tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:5432 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
>
> tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
>
> tcp 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN
>
> tcp 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN
>
> tcp 0 0 :::443 :::* LISTEN
>
> As you can see it is only listening on the loopback interface
>
> I’m quite certain the issue is how I am starting the service, but I’ve
> added the –i flag.
>
> I’m all out of ideas on this one. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bart
>