Re: Is the server running on host "192.168.2.111" and accepting TCP/IP conn

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Purusothaman A <Purusothaman(dot)A(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Is the server running on host "192.168.2.111" and accepting TCP/IP conn
Date: 2006-08-25 13:48:55
Message-ID: 23224.1156513735@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Purusothaman A <Purusothaman(dot)A(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> My system IP is 192.168.2.111, and client machine IP is 192.168.2.89.

> I can connect to the PostgreSQL server with " psql -Uroot -h192.168.2.111"
> from same system(192.168.2.111)

> If I give the above command from 192.168.2.89, results

> E:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.1\bin>psql -Uroot - h192.168.2.111
> psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused (0x0000274D/10061)
> Is the server running on host "192.168.2.111" and accepting
> TCP/IP connections on port 5432?

I'm betting that you have some firewall software on that server that
needs to be persuaded to let through nonlocal connections to port 5432.

> I have read that we have to specify option "-i" while starting postmaster to
> accept TCP/IP connections from other systems. (Is it right?)

No, that's been superseded by listen_addresses, which you appear to have
set correctly already. (If you modified that entry, you did restart the
postmaster afterwards, right?)

regards, tom lane

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