Re: ssl tunneling in postgres 8.1

From: "Obe, Regina" <robe(dot)dnd(at)cityofboston(dot)gov>
To: "P Kapat" <kap4lin(at)gmail(dot)com>, <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ssl tunneling in postgres 8.1
Date: 2008-11-19 21:46:31
Message-ID: 53F9CF533E1AA14EA1F8C5C08ABC08D204D7F032@ZDND.DND.boston.cob
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> OK, agreed, it is not wrong, but it is certainly not transparent
> either. If I understand the things now, the documentation as is (-L
> 3333:foo.com:5432) works as long as

> Precisely, that is the configuration: " listen_addresses = 'localhost'
> ".... In which case, " -L 3333:localhost:5432 " has to be used.
> Shouldn't this be mentioned in the documentation? This whole thing is
> not trivial!!!

Sorry for the misinformation guys.
Thanks all for the clarification. That works for me too. I have corrected my journal entry.

Anyrate I agree that the localhost localhost thing is not an obvious thing and should be documented. I mean that's the common reason I use tunneling so I can have my server only listen on localhost.

Thanks,
Regina

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