Re: Postgres and Firewall

Chetan Parekh wrote:
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> We have Postgress Database running on machine with ip address
> 192.168.0.1 on port no 5432.
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> We want to access this database from outside the firewall. Hence we
> need to open port no 5432 of 192.168.01 in firewall for outside users.
> But in firewall configuration we need to provide the type of call also
> like https, https, ect.
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> We have Swing based application that need to access database over
> internet.
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> Please guild me, what kind of call it will be from Swing based
> application to database
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It's a PostgreSQL client library using the PostgreSQL protocol that does
the talking.
You sound like you're using a fairly restrictive firewall, generally
allowing traffic from/to a certain IP and port number is all that is
required - is there a "generic TCP" option at all in your firewall?

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