Re: problem to connect to database

I can connect to it using telnet

Melanie
Dave Cramer wrote:

>Melanie,
>
>If you can't telnet into it, then the driver won't connect either.
>
>If you use windows just run telnet with no args
>a box will come up and you can enter the port, and host
>
>it should connect and nothing else.
>
>If it doesn't then it is a network problem
>
>Dave
>On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 13:13, Melanie Bergeron wrote:
>
>
>>I added the line [host    all     all     10.0.0.0   255.255.255.0
>>trust] in my pg_hba.conf (the other line was already there) but no results.
>>I will take a look to the tutorial, maybe I will find my problem.  But I
>>still can't figured out why it worked last week and not today.
>>
>>Thanks to all for your replies
>>
>>Melanie
>>
>>Erwan Arzur wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Dave wanted you to check just that, but used a syntax that just
>>>doesn't work on the platform you're using (did you see that it's
>>>trying to resolve host:5432 ?). Telnet connects you to the TCP port
>>>you specify on the command line, and 'man telnet' is your friend, by
>>>the way ...
>>>
>>>
>>>The output of netstat just means your server is started and listening
>>>on port 5432, so that's one problem solved.
>>>
>>>Now that means you have to investigate some other problems. Supposing
>>>you're using postgres on a linux box, your database may be in
>>>/var/lib/pgsql/data. Is the pg_hba.conf file there correctly setup to
>>>allow connections from the webserver ?
>>>
>>>You need something like this (not recommended on production
>>>environments) :
>>>
>>>host    all     all     127.0.0.1       255.255.255.255 trust
>>>host    all     all     10.0.0.0                255.255.255.0   trust
>>>
>>>have you tried "psql gec_test bergeron.melanie" ? what is the output ?
>>>
>>>reading the tutorial there might just help, also :
>>>http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/tutorial.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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