Re: Cannot Connect To Db From Local Server

We have a legacy PostgresSQL 7.3.4 db on Solaris  which has recently (as in last 24 hours or so) begun refusing TCP/IP (JDBC) connections from the same server the db is on.

The db is up and running—psql connects; I can access the db via pgAdmin III from a PC; I can connect via JDBC from a PC.

However: any JDBC call (whether command-line app or web app) running on the db server fails with this message:

org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Connection refused. Check that the hostname and port are correct and that the postmaster is accepting TCP/IP connections.

And the postmaster log contains the following message:

                FATAL:  unsupported frontend protocol

Mind you… I am using the same JDBC jar (pg74.216.jdbc2.jar) and connection URL in code on my PC and the Solaris server.

Our pg_hba.conf file contains the following lines:

local   all         all                                                                        password

host    all         all         127.0.0.1         255.255.255.255   password

host    all         all         0.0.0.0           0.0.0.0                        password

And “tcpip_socket = true” is enabled in postgresql.conf.

 

Any ideas?

 

David Rickard

UCLA Library Information Technology

drickard1967@library.ucla.edu

310.206.9780