| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Getting rid of "accept incoming network connections" prompts on OS X |
| Date: | 2014-10-26 02:02:05 |
| Message-ID: | 544C561D.4040204@gmx.net |
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On 10/25/14 2:52 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> And a bit of experimentation later: it seems that on Yosemite (and
> probably earlier OS X versions), "localhost" maps to all three of these
> addresses:
> 127.0.0.1
> ::1
> fe80:1::1
> Binding to 127.0.0.1 does not trigger the firewall popup. Binding
> to ::1 doesn't, either. But binding to fe80:1::1 does. So the
> easy fix, for a default installation, is to keep the postmaster
> from binding to that last address.
>
> I'm not sufficiently up on my IPv6 to be sure exactly what that third
> address does. Perhaps it is a bug in the firewall logic that it
> considers that address external?
I think that's exactly it. I have filed a bug with Apple about it.
For the time begin, I think it's a reasonable workaround to comment out
the line in /etc/hosts.
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