Re: Host problem

On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 11:56:15AM -0700, Fredrick Bartlett wrote:
> I have configured the folllowing files as so...
>
> /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 home_dev1
> 192.168.1.100 home_dev1

[snip]

> psql -h home_dev1 my_database << this does not work REMOTELY
>
> What confg am I missing?

You probably need to setup the remote machines to resolve the hostname
'home_dev1' to the IP '192.168.1.100'. If the other machines are running
UNIX, just put this in /etc/hosts, like you did on the machine running
postmaster:

192.168.1.100 home_dev1

HTH,

Neil

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